friends

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

¹⁰If one falls, he shall be supported by the other. Woe to one who is alone. For when he falls, he has no one to lift him up.

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

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

²⁰Whoever keeps step with the wise shall be wise. A friend of the foolish will become like them.

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

¹⁷Iron sharpens iron, and a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.

¹⁵I will no longer call you servants, for the servant does not know what his Lord is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything whatsoever that I have heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

¹⁴You are my friends, if you do what I instruct you.

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

⁹Therefore, it is better for two to be together, than for one to be alone. For they have the advantage of their companionship. ¹⁰If one falls, he shall be supported by the other. Woe to one who is alone. For when he falls, he has no one to lift him up. ¹¹And if two are sleeping, they warm one another. How can one person alone be warmed? ¹²And if a man can prevail against one, two may withstand him, and a threefold cord is broken with difficulty.

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.