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Thinking he was in their company, they traveled on for a day. Then they began looking for him among their relatives and friends.
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Jesus answered, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while he is with them?
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So Jesus went with them. He was not far from the house when the centurion sent friends to say to him: “Lord, don’t trouble yourself, for I do not deserve to have you come under my roof.
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I tell you, even though he will not get up and give you the bread because of friendship, yet because of your shameless audacity he will surely get up and give you as much as you need.
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“I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more.
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Then Jesus said to his host, “When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or sisters, your relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid.
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and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.’
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And when she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost coin.’
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But he answered his father, ‘Look! All these years I’ve been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.
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I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.
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You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers and sisters, relatives and friends, and they will put some of you to death.
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That day Herod and Pilate became friends—before this they had been enemies.
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Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
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You are my friends if you do what I command.
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I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.
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He called out to them, “Friends, haven’t you any fish?” “No,” they answered.
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The following day he arrived in Caesarea. Cornelius was expecting them and had called together his relatives and close friends.
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“Therefore, my friends, I want you to know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you.
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“Friends, why are you doing this? We too are only human, like you. We are bringing you good news, telling you to turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heavens and the earth and the sea and everything in them.
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So we all agreed to choose some men and send them to you with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul—
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He called them together, along with the workers in related trades, and said: “You know, my friends, that we receive a good income from this business.
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Even some of the officials of the province, friends of Paul, sent him a message begging him not to venture into the theater.
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He ordered the centurion to keep Paul under guard but to give him some freedom and permit his friends to take care of his needs.
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The next day we landed at Sidon; and Julius, in kindness to Paul, allowed him to go to his friends so they might provide for his needs.
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Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord.
