30 Bible Verses about friendliness

You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose: “He jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us”?

Let your gentle spirit be known to all men. The Lord is near.

You are My friends if you do what I command you.

If the distance is so great for you that you are not able to bring the tithe, since the place where the Lord your God chooses to set His name is too far away from you when the Lord your God blesses you,

Many will seek the favor of a generous man,
And every man is a friend to him who gives gifts.

The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.

To sum up, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, brotherly, kindhearted, and humble in spirit;

Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the leading man of the island, named Publius, who welcomed us and entertained us courteously three days.

Better is a dish of vegetables where love is
Than a fattened ox served with hatred.

“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey wandering away, you shall surely return it to him.

Also you shall not neglect the Levite who is in your town, for he has no portion or inheritance among you.

He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward; and he who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward.

You may spend the money for whatever your heart desires: for oxen, or sheep, or wine, or strong drink, or whatever your heart desires; and there you shall eat in the presence of the Lord your God and rejoice, you and your household.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers; and so they hated him and could not speak to him on friendly terms.

“At the end of every third year you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in that year, and shall deposit it in your town.

“Indeed, you have now become such,
You see a terror and are afraid.

“You shall surely tithe all the produce from what you sow, which comes out of the field every year.

Now behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem and said to the reapers, “May the Lord be with you.” And they said to him, “May the Lord bless you.”

then you shall exchange it for money, and bind the money in your hand and go to the place which the Lord your God chooses.

You shall eat in the presence of the Lord your God, at the place where He chooses to establish His name, the tithe of your grain, your new wine, your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and your flock, so that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always.

Then the king said to the man of God, “Come home with me and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward.”

The first woe is past; behold, two woes are still coming after these things.

The Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance among you, and the alien, the orphan and the widow who are in your town, shall come and eat and be satisfied, in order that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

On the day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine;
He stretched out his hand with scoffers,

I will be like the dew to Israel;
He will blossom like the lily,
And he will take root like the cedars of Lebanon.

Then he said to them, “Go, eat of the fat, drink of the sweet, and send portions to him who has nothing prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”

So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.

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.