2. Friendship

3. 3 big truths:
1. Being Friends with God is the Best Way to Become Friends with Everyone Else
“When a man’s ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.”
Proverbs 16:7
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4. 2. Choose Your Friends Wisely Because You Will Become Like Them
3 big truths:
2. Choose Your Friends Wisely Because You Will Become Like Them
“Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.”
Proverbs 13:20
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5. 3. Value True Friends Because They Are Rare
3 big truths:
3. Value True Friends Because They Are Rare
“Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love, but a faithful man who can find?”
Proverbs 20:6
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6. How to Become a good friend
Things to Avoid:
1. Revealing Secrets
“Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets, but ho who is trustworthy in spirit keeps a thing covered.”
Proverbs 11:13
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7. How to Become a good friend
Things to Avoid:
“A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.” Proverbs 16:28
1. Revealing Secrets
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8. How to Become a good friend
Things to Avoid:
“Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.”
Proverbs 17:9
1. Revealing Secrets
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9. How to Become a good friend
Things to Avoid:
“A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.” Proverbs 15:18
2. Angry Outbursts
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10. How to Become a good friend
Things to Avoid:
“For pressing milk produces curds, pressing the nose produces blood, and pressing anger produces strife.”
Proverbs 30:33
2. Angry Outbursts
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11. How to Become a good friend
Things to Avoid:
“Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.”
Proverbs 19:11
2. Angry Outbursts
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12. How to Become a good friend
Things to Avoid:
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13. How to Become a good friend
Things to Avoid:
“A man who is kind benefits himself, but a cruel man hurts himself.”
Proverbs 11:17
3. Cruel Words
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14. How to Become a good friend
Things to Avoid:
“Whoever belittles his neighbor lacks sense, but a man of understanding remains silent.”
Proverbs 11:12
3. Cruel Words
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15. How to Become a good friend
Things to Avoid:
“With his mouth the godless man would destroy his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered.”
Proverbs 11:9
3. Cruel Words
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16. How to Become a good friend
Things to Avoid:
“Do not say, ‘I will do to him as he had done to me; I will pay the man back for what he has done.”
Proverbs 24:29
4. Retaliation
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17. How to Become a good friend
Things to Avoid:
“A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger”
Proverbs 15:1
4. Retaliation
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18. How to Become a good friend
Things to Avoid:
“Whoever meddles in a quarrel not his own is like one who takes a passing dog by the ears.”
Proverbs 26:17
5. Meddling
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19. How to Become a good friend
Things to Avoid:
“Do not contend with a man for no reason, when he has done you no harm.”
Proverbs 3:30
5. Meddling
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20. How to Become a good friend
Things to Pursue:
“Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.”
Proverbs 10:12
1. In Love, Cover Offenses
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21. How to Become a good friend
Things to Pursue:
“Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets, but he who is trustworthy in spirit keeps a thing covered.”
Proverbs 11:13
1. In Love, Cover Offenses
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22. How to Become a good friend
Things to Pursue:
“Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.”
Proverbs 17:9
1. In Love, Cover Offenses
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23. How to Become a good friend
Things to Pursue:
“Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.”
Proverbs 19:11
1. In Love, Cover Offenses
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24. How to Become a good friend 2. Deal w/Conflict Immediately
Things to Pursue:
“Argue your case with your neighbor himself, and do not reveal another’s secret, lest he who hears you bring shame upon you, and your ill repute have no end.”
Proverbs 25:9-10
2. Deal w/Conflict Immediately
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25. How to Become a good friend 2. Deal w/Conflict Immediately
Things to Pursue:
“My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger, if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth, then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor: go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor. Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber; save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.” Proverbs 6:1-5
2. Deal w/Conflict Immediately
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26. How to Become a good friend 2. Deal w/Conflict Immediately
Things to Pursue:
“Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.”
Proverbs 28:13
2. Deal w/Conflict Immediately
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27. How to Become a good friend
Things to Pursue:
“A man who is kind benefits himself, but a cruel man hurts himself”
Proverbs 11:17
3. Choose Kindness & Generosity
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28. How to Become a good friend 3. Choose Kindness & Generosity
Things to Pursue:
“One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.”
Proverbs 11:24-25
3. Choose Kindness & Generosity
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29. How to Become a good friend 3. Choose Kindness & Generosity
Things to Pursue:
“Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it. Do not say to your neighbor, ‘Go, and come again, tomorrow I will give it’ when you have it with you.”
Proverbs 3:27-28
3. Choose Kindness & Generosity
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30. How to Become a good friend
Things to Pursue:
“A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.”
Proverbs 17:17
4. Be Faithful Especially in Tough Times
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31. How to Become a good friend 4. Be Faithful Especially in Tough Times
Things to Pursue:
Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel. Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend, and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away.
Proverbs 27:9-10
4. Be Faithful Especially in Tough Times
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32. How to Become a good friend 4. Be Faithful Especially in Tough Times
Things to Pursue:
“Trusting in a treacherous man in times of trouble is like a bad tooth or a foot that slips.”
Proverbs 25:19
4. Be Faithful Especially in Tough Times
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33. How to Become a good friend
Things to Pursue:
“Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.”
Proverbs 27:17
5. Speak the Truth in Love
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34. How to Become a good friend
Things to Pursue:
“Better is open rebuke than hidden love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.”
Proverbs 27:5-6
5. Speak the Truth in Love
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35. How to Become a good friend
Things to Pursue:
“Whoever rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than he who flatters with his tongue.”
Proverbs 28:23
5. Speak the Truth in Love
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36. How to Become a good friend
Summing it up
Friends are sacrificial, selfless and proactive in their love
Friends are loyal, trustworthy and faithful
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37. Friendship