abandoning friends

²⁴A man amiable to society shall be more friendly than a brother.

¹⁰Do not dismiss your friend or your father’s friend. And do not enter your brother’s house in the day of your affliction. A close neighbor is better than a distant brother.

¹⁷Whoever is a friend loves at all times. And a brother is proved by distress.

¹⁰For even the man of my peace, in whom I hoped, who ate my bread, has greatly supplanted me.

¹³For if my enemy had spoken evil about me, certainly, I would have sustained it. And if he who hated me had been speaking great things against me, I would perhaps have hidden myself from him. ¹⁴Truly, you are a man of one mind: my leader and my acquaintance, ¹⁵who took sweet food together with me. In the house of God, we walked side-by-side.

⁴Riches add many friends. But from the pauper, even those whom he had become separated.

³¹Then Jesus said to them: “You will all fall away from me in this night. For it has been written: ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’ ³²But after I have risen again, I will go before you to Galilee.” ³³Then Peter responded by saying to him, “Even if everyone else has fallen away from you, I will never fall away.” ³⁴Jesus said to him, “Amen I say to you, that in this night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” ³⁵Peter said to him, “Even if it is necessary for me to die with you, I will not deny you.” And all the disciples spoke similarly.

²⁰The pauper will be hated, even by his own neighbor. Yet truly, the friends of the wealthy are many.

¹³No one has a greater love than this: that he lay down his life for his friends.

³³Do not be led astray. Evil communication corrupts good morals.

¹⁴My kinsmen have forsaken me, and those who knew me, have forgotten me.

¹⁰For my father and my mother have left me behind, but the Lord has taken me up.

¹¹But now I have written to you: do not associate with anyone who is called a brother and yet is a fornicator, or greedy, or a servant of idolatry, or a slanderer, or inebriated, or a robber. With such a one as this, do not even take food.

¹⁶At my first defense, no one stood by me, but everyone abandoned me. May it not be counted against them!