30 Bible Verses about friendliness

Adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes [himself] an enemy of God.

Or do you think that in vain the scripture says, "The spirit which he caused to dwell in us desires jealously"?

Let your gentleness be made known to all people. The Lord [is] near.

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

But if {the distance is too great for you}, [so] that you are not able to transport it, because the place that Yahweh your God will choose to set his name there, it is [too] far from you, when Yahweh your God will bless you,

Many will seek favor before the generous, and everyone [is] the friend of a man of gifts.

The alien who is dwelling with you shall be like a native among you, and you shall love him like yourself, because you were aliens in the land of Egypt; I [am] Yahweh your God.

And finally, all [of you be] harmonious, sympathetic, showing mutual affection, compassionate, humble,

Now in the [regions] around that place were fields belonging to the chief official of the island, {named} Publius, who welcomed us [and] entertained [us] hospitably [for] three days.

Better [is] a dinner of vegetables when love [is] there than a fattened ox and hatred with it.

" 'If you come upon the ox of your enemy or his donkey going astray, you will certainly bring it back to him

And [as to] the Levite who [is] in your {towns}, you shall not neglect him, because there is not a plot of ground for him and an inheritance [along] with you.

The one who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet's reward, and the one who receives a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive a righteous person's reward.

You may spend the money for anything {that you desire}, for oxen or for sheep or for wine or for strong drink or for anything {that you desire}, and you shall eat [it] there {before} Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.

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 his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and were not able to speak peaceably to him.

"At the end of three years you shall bring out all [of] the tithe of your yield for that year, and you shall store [it] in your {towns}.

"For now you have become {such}; you see terrors, and you fear.

"Certainly you must give a tithe [of] all the yield of your seed, {which comes forth from your field year after year}.

And look, Boaz came from Bethlehem and said to the reapers, "[May] Yahweh [be] with you." And they said to him, "[May] Yahweh bless you."

then [in that case] {you may exchange for money}, and you shall take the money to your hand and go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose.

And you shall eat {before} Yahweh your God in the place that he will choose to make to dwell his name there the tithe of your grain, your wine and your olive oil and the firstling of your herd and your flock, so that you may learn to revere Yahweh your God {always}.

Then the king spoke to the man of God, "Come with me to the house and refresh yourself, that I may give you a gift."

The first woe has passed. Behold, two woes are still coming after these [things].

And [so] the Levite may come, because there is no plot of ground for him or an inheritance with you, and the alien [also may come] and the orphan and the widow that [are] in your {towns}, and {they may eat their fill}, so that Yahweh your God may bless you in all [of] the work of your hand that you undertake."

[On] the day of our king, the princes became sick [with] the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers.

I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily plant, and he will strike his roots like the [trees of] Lebanon.

Then he said to them, "Go, eat festive food and drink sweet drinks, and send a share to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our lord. Do not be grieved because the joy of Yahweh is your refuge."

So Esau turned that day on his way to Seir.

And he also said to the one who had invited him, "When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or wealthy neighbors, lest they also invite you [in return], and repayment come to you.