⁴ O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.

¹⁰ And if one has a fall, the other will give him a hand; but unhappy is the man who is by himself, because he has no helper.

¹⁰ Be kind to one another with a brother's love, putting others before yourselves in honour;

²⁴ There are friends who may be a man's destruction, but there is a lover who keeps nearer than a brother.

²⁰ Go with wise men and be wise: but he who keeps company with the foolish will be broken.

¹⁷ Iron makes iron sharp; so a man makes sharp his friend.

¹¹ For I have a strong desire to see you, and to give you some grace of the spirit, so that you may be made strong;

¹² That is to say, that all of us may be comforted together by the faith which is in you and in me.

¹³ You may be certain, my brothers, that it has frequently been in my mind to come to you (but till now I was kept from it), so that I might have some fruit from you in the same way as I have had it from the other nations.

⁹ Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul.

³³ Do not be tricked by false words: evil company does damage to good behaviour.

¹¹ My loved ones, if God had such love for us, it is right for us to have love for one another.

¹² No man has ever seen God: if we have love for one another, God is in us and his love is made complete in us:

¹³ And his Spirit which he has given us is the witness that we are in him and he is in us.

⁹ He who keeps a sin covered is looking for love; but he who keeps on talking of a thing makes division between friends.

²⁸ A man of twisted purposes is a cause of fighting everywhere: and he who says evil secretly makes trouble between friends.

⁷ My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.

¹ And David said, Is there still anyone of Saul's family living, so that I may be a friend to him, because of Jonathan?

¹³ Greater love has no man than this, that a man gives up his life for his friends.

⁹ Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul.

¹⁰ Do not give up your friend and your father's friend; and do not go into your brother's house in the day of your trouble: better is a neighbour who is near than a brother far off.

¹¹ My son, be wise and make my heart glad, so that I may give back an answer to him who puts me to shame.

¹⁷ A friend is loving at all times, and becomes a brother in times of trouble.

⁵ Better is open protest than love kept secret.

⁶ The wounds of a friend are given in good faith, but the kisses of a hater are false.

⁷ The full man has no use for honey, but to the man in need of food every bitter thing is sweet.

¹⁹ Give honour to your father and your mother: and, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

⁹ Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their work.

¹⁰ And if one has a fall, the other will give him a hand; but unhappy is the man who is by himself, because he has no helper.

¹¹ So again, if two are sleeping together they are warm, but how may one be warm by himself?

¹² And two attacked by one would be safe, and three cords twisted together are not quickly broken.

¹⁵ No longer do I give you the name of servants; because a servant is without knowledge of what his master is doing: I give you the name of friends, because I have given you knowledge of all the things which my Father has said to me.

¹⁴ He whose heart is shut against his friend has given up the fear of the Ruler of all.

²⁴ Do not be friends with a man who is given to wrath; do not go in the company of an angry man:

²⁵ For fear of learning his ways and making a net ready for your soul.

²⁶ Be not one of those who give their hands in an agreement, or of those who make themselves responsible for debts:

¹ <A Song of the going up. Of David.> See how good and how pleasing it is for brothers to be living together in harmony!

¹⁰ Do not give up your friend and your father's friend; and do not go into your brother's house in the day of your trouble: better is a neighbour who is near than a brother far off.

¹ <A Song of the going up. Of David.> See how good and how pleasing it is for brothers to be living together in harmony!

² It is like oil of great price on the head, flowing down over the face, even Aaron's face: coming down to the edge of his robe;

³ Like the dew of Hermon, which comes down on the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord gave orders for the blessing, even life for ever.

¹² This is the law I give you: Have love one for another, even as I have love for you.

⁶ Those who are without friends, God puts in families; he makes free those who are in chains; but those who are turned away from him are given a dry land.

²¹ And this is the word which we have from him, that he who has love for God is to have the same love for his brother.

⁹ Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their work.