'Friends' in the Bible
Make friends quickly with your opponent at law while you are with him on the way, so that your opponent may not hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.
Now Jesus started on His way with them; and when He was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends, saying to Him, “Lord, do not trouble Yourself further, for I am not worthy for You to come under my roof;
“I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that have no more that they can do.
And He also went on to say to the one who had invited Him, “When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, otherwise they may also invite you in return and that will be your repayment.
And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’
When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin which I had lost!’
But he answered and said to his father, ‘Look! For so many years I have been serving you and I have never neglected a command of yours; and yet you have never given me a young goat, so that I might celebrate with my friends;
And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by means of the wealth of unrighteousness, so that when it fails, they will receive you into the eternal dwellings.
But you will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and they will put some of you to death,
Now Herod and Pilate became friends with one another that very day; for before they had been enemies with each other.
Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.
You are My friends if you do what I command you.
No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.
On the following day he entered Caesarea. Now Cornelius was waiting for them and had called together his relatives and close friends.
Also some of the Asiarchs who were friends of his sent to him and repeatedly urged him not to venture into the theater.
Then he gave orders to the centurion for him to be kept in custody and yet have some freedom, and not to prevent any of his friends from ministering to him.
The next day we put in at Sidon; and Julius treated Paul with consideration and allowed him to go to his friends and receive care.
but I hope to see you shortly, and we will speak face to face.
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