True Friendship Revealed

The right friend will build you up. The wrong friend will destroy you. Many will have their plans and lives changed because they picked the wrong friend or give them the wrong priority in their lives! Many do not even know what a true friend is. Here is short study on what the bible says a true friend: 
 

Friendly all the time! A true friend loves during the hard times as well as the good. In Proverbs 17: 7-8 the bible says “A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. A man void of understanding stricketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.”

The bible in Proverbs 27: 10 says “Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.”

Friendly first! A true friend is friendly first, rather than waiting for others to approach him first. In proverbs 18: 24 “A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a mother.”

Friendly giving! True friendship is given not bought. You cannot buy true friendship. Give and may get. Don’t be friendly to get. You cannot make someone your friend. This is clarified in proverbs 19: 16 “Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.”_ but not true friends!

Friendly honest advice! A true friend tells what he believes is best for his friend because he cares on what happens to his friend. The bible has the audacity to tell us that “Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.” (Proverbs 22: 6)

In proverbs 27: 9 and 10 the bible says, “Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel. Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.”

After getting the guidance of true friendship from the bible, my advice to everyone is that wait on the right friend and do not take the first acquaintance that comes around as your friend. Pick a friend that you look up to or the relationship that will bring you down. Pray about the friendship  and ask God how you can be a better friend, not just how that person can meet your needs. Ask God to give you a friend!

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