True Friends

Without guidance, a people will fall, but with many counselors there is deliverance.

Plans fail when there is no counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.

A contrary person spreads conflict, and a gossip separates close friends.

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a difficult time.

One with many friends may be harmed, but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.

Many a person proclaims his own loyalty, but who can find a trustworthy person?

Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

No one has greater love than this: to lay down his life for his friends.

Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Indeed, it is right for me to think this way about all of you, because I have you in my heart, and you are all partners with me in grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel.

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.