(100) The love of friends.

This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, 6 because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father. It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you. (John 15:12-16)

The LORD used to speak to Moses face to face, as one man speaks to another. Moses would then return to the camp, but his young assistant, Joshua, son of Nun, would not move out of the tent. (Ex 33:11)

As iron sharpens iron, so man sharpens his fellow man. (Prov 27:17)

Two are better than one: they get a good wage for their labor. If the one falls, the other will lift up his companion. Woe to the solitary man! For if he should fall, he has no one to lift him up. (Eccl 4:9-10)

Thus the scripture was fulfilled that says, «Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,» and he was called «the friend of God.» (James 2:23)

Walk with wise men and you will become wise, but the companion of fools will fare badly. (Prov 13:21)

Do not be led astray: «Bad company corrupts good morals.» (1 Cor 15:33)

Cherish your friend, keep faith with him; but if you betray his confidence, follow him not; For as an enemy might kill a man, you have killed your neighbor’s friendship. Like a bird released from the hand, you have let your friend go and cannot recapture him; Follow him not, for he is far away, he has fled like a gazelle from the trap. (Sir 27:17-20)

Again, (amen,) I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything for which they are to pray, it shall be granted to them by my heavenly Father. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.» (Matt 18:19-20)