30 Bible Verses about friendliness

Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? So whoever decides to be the world's friend makes himself God's enemy.

Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says, "The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning"?

Let everyone see your gentleness. The Lord is near!

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

When he blesses you, if the place where he chooses to locate his name is distant,

Many people entreat the favor of a generous person, and everyone is the friend of the person who gives gifts.

The foreigner who resides with you must be to you like a native citizen among you; so you must love him as yourself, because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

Finally, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, affectionate, compassionate, and humble.

Now in the region around that place were fields belonging to the chief official of the island, named Publius, who welcomed us and entertained us hospitably as guests for three days.

Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox where there is hatred.

"If you encounter your enemy's ox or donkey wandering off, you must by all means return it to him.

As for the Levites in your villages, you must not ignore them, for they have no allotment or inheritance along with you.

Whoever receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet's reward. Whoever receives a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive a righteous person's reward.

Then you may spend the money however you wish for cattle, sheep, wine, beer, or whatever you desire. You and your household may eat there in the presence of the Lord your God and enjoy it.

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.

When Joseph's brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated Joseph and were not able to speak to him kindly.

At the end of every three years you must bring all the tithe of your produce, in that very year, and you must store it up in your villages.

For now you have become like these streams that are no help; you see a terror, and are afraid.

You must be certain to tithe all the produce of your seed that comes from the field year after year.

Now at that very moment, Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and greeted the harvesters, "May the Lord be with you!" They replied, "May the Lord bless you!"

you may convert the tithe into money, secure the money, and travel to the place the Lord your God chooses for himself.

In the presence of the Lord your God you must eat from the tithe of your grain, your new wine, your olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the place he chooses to locate his name, so that you may learn to revere the Lord your God always.

The king then said to the prophet, "Come home with me and have something to eat. I'd like to give a present."

The first woe has passed, but two woes are still coming after these things!

Then the Levites (because they have no allotment or inheritance with you), the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows of your villages may come and eat their fill so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work you do.

At the celebration of their king, his princes become inflamed with wine; they conspire with evildoers.

I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like a lily, he will send down his roots like a cedar of Lebanon.

He said to them, "Go and eat delicacies and drink sweet drinks and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared. For this day is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength."

So that same day Esau made his way back to Seir.

He said also to the man who had invited him, "When you host a dinner or a banquet, don't invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors so you can be invited by them in return and get repaid.