You can bring sweetness and spiritual well-being to your Christian friends.

You can bring sweetness and spiritual wellbeing to your Christians friends.

“Ointment and perfume delight the heart, and the sweetness of a man’s friend gives delight by hearty counsel.” (Prov 27:9)

“For this reason I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved [agapetos] and faithful son in the Lord” (1Cor 4:17)

“Therefore, my beloved [agapetos] and longed-for brethren, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, beloved [agapetos].” (Phil 4:1)

“Therefore be imitators of God as dear [agapetos] children.” (Eph 5:1)

“as you also learned from Epaphras, our dear [agapetos] fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf” (Col 1:7)

“Tychicus, a beloved [agapetos] brother, faithful minister, and fellow servant in the Lord” (Col 4:7)

“with Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother” (Col 4:9)

“Luke the beloved physician and Demas greet you.” (Col 4:14)

“To Philemon our beloved [agapetos] friend and fellow laborer” (Phmn 1:1)

“Greet my beloved [agapetos] Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia to Christ” (Rom 16:5)

“Greet Amplias, my beloved [agapetos] in the Lord.” (Rom 16:8)

“Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved [agapetos].” (Rom 16:9)

“Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, who have labored in the Lord. Greet the beloved [agapetos] Persis, who labored much in the Lord.” (Rom 16:12)

“To all who are in Rome, beloved [agapetos] of God, called to be saints” (Rom 1:7)

“To Timothy, a beloved [agapetos] son” (2Tim 1:2)

“to the beloved [agapetos] Apphia, Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church in your house” (Phmn 1:2)

“Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. And he was called the friend of God.” (Jm 2:23)

“The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, Look, a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!” (Matt 11:19)

“The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, Look, a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!” (Lk 7L34)

“So the LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend.” (Ex 33:11)

“These things He said, and after that He said to them, Our friend Lazarus sleeps, but I go that I may wake him up.” (Jn 11:11)

“Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend” (Prov 27:10)

“To him who is afflicted, kindness should be shown by his friend” (Job 6:14)

“A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.” (Prov 17:17)

“A man who has friends must himself be friendly, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.” (Prov 18:24)

“Faithful are the wounds of a friend” (Prov 27:6)

“As iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.” (Prov 27:17)

“This is my beloved, and this is my friend” (Song 5:16)

“But when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes he may say to you, Friend, go up higher. Then you will have glory in the presence of those who sit at the table with you.” (Lk 14:10)

“So, affectionately longing [homeiromai] for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God, but also our own lives, because you had become dear [agapetos] to us.” (1Thes 2:8)

“Beloved, I now write to you this second epistle (in both of which I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder)” (2Pet 3:1)

“Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless” (2Pet 3:14)

“You therefore, beloved, since you know this beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked” (2Pet 3:17)

“Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.” (1Jn 3:2)

Reading: Prov 25-27; Rom 6