Job 16:20-21
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20 My friends are my scoffers;
(A)My eye weeps to God,
21 That one might plead for a man with God
As a son of man with his neighbor!
Proverbs 17:17
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17 A (A)friend loves at all times,
And a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 27:17
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17 As iron sharpens iron,
So one person sharpens another.
John 15:12-15
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Disciples’ Relation to Each Other
12 “This is (A)My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. 13 (B)Greater love has no one than this, that a person will (C)lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are My (D)friends if (E)you do what I command you. 15 No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because (F)all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.
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