Bible verses about "companionship" | MNT

¹³ On that same day two of his disciples were walking to Emmaus, a village about seven miles from Jerusalem. ¹⁴ They were talking together about all these events, ¹⁵ and as they talked and discussed matter, Jesus himself drew near and began walking beside them. ¹⁶ But their eyes continued to be held that they should not recognize him even for an instant, ¹⁷ And he said to them, "What words are these that you are exchanging one with another, as you walk along?" ¹⁸ They stood still, looking sad. And one of them named Cleopas, answered him, "Do you sojourn alone in Jerusalem, that you do not know what things have been happening there these days?" ¹⁹ "What kind of things?" he answered. And they said: "The things concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people; ²⁰ "and how our high priest and ruler delivered him to be condemned to death and crucified him. ²¹ "But we were hoping that it was he who should redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this is the third day since these things happened. ²² "Moreover, some women of our company amazed us. They went to his tomb at daybreak, ²³ "and found that his body was not there; then they came and told us that besides they had seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive. ²⁴ "Thereupon some of our own party to the tomb, and found it even so as the women had said, but him they did not see." ²⁵ "O foolish men," said Jesus, "slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! ²⁶ "Behooved it not the Christ to suffer thus, and then to enter into his glory?" ²⁷ And beginning with Moses and the Prophets, he interpreted all the passages concerning himself. ²⁸ When they drew near to the village to which they are were going, he appeared to be going farther. ²⁹ But they urged him to stay with them, saying, "Abide with us, for it is toward evening, and the day is now far spent." ³⁰ So he went in to stay with them. But as he sat down with them, and took bread, and had blessed and broken it, and was handing it to them, ³¹ their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he vanished out of their sight. ³² "Were not our hearts burning within us," they said to each other, "while we were talking with him on the way, and he was opening to us the scriptures?" ³³ So they rose and returned to Jerusalem that very hour, and found the Eleven and the others all met together, ³⁴ saying, "The Lord is really risen, and has appeared to Simon!" ³⁵ Then they began to tell what happened on the road, and he was known to them when he broke the bread.

¹⁵ But if the unbelieving partner be determined to leave, separation let it be. In such cases the believing husband or wife is not under bondage. But it is into peace that God has called us.

²² Now that by obedience to the truth you have purified your lives for a brotherly love without hypocrisy, you must love one another from your hearts, fervently.

¹ "I am the vine, and my Father the vine-grower. ² "He cuts back any of my branches that bear no fruit, and prunes every fruit-bearing branch, that it may bear more. ³ "Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken to you. ⁴ "Abide in me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more can you, unless you abide in me. ⁵ "I am the Vine you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him, bears abundant fruit; because apart from me you can do nothing. ⁶ "If any one does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers. Such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire and burned.

⁴ Let marriage be held in honor by all, and the marriage bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge.