Bible verses about "companionship" | BLB

¹³ And behold, on the same day, two of them were going to a village whose name is Emmaus, sixty stadia distant from Jerusalem. ¹⁴ And they were talking with one another about all these things having taken place. ¹⁵ And it came to pass, in their talking and reasoning, that Jesus Himself, having drawn near, was walking along with them. ¹⁶ But their eyes were held not to know Him. ¹⁷ And He said to them, “What are these words that you exchange with one another, walking?” And they stood still, looking sad. ¹⁸ And the one named Cleopas, answering, said to Him, “Are You alone visiting Jerusalem and have not known the things having come to pass in it in these days?” ¹⁹ And He said to them, “What things?” And they said to Him, “The things concerning Jesus of Nazareth, a man who was a prophet, mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, ²⁰ and that our chief priests and rulers delivered Him up to the judgment of death, and crucified Him. ²¹ But we were hoping it is He who is about to redeem Israel. But indeed also with all these things, this brings the third day away from which these things came to pass. ²² But also, certain women out from us astonished us. Having been to the tomb early ²³ and not having found His body, they came declaring to have also seen a vision of angels, who say He is alive. ²⁴ And some of those with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women also said. But Him they did not see.” ²⁵ And He said to them, “O foolish and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken. ²⁶ Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into His glory?” ²⁷ And having begun from Moses and from all the Prophets, He interpreted to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures. ²⁸ And they drew near to the village where they were going, and He appeared to be going farther. ²⁹ And they constrained Him, saying, “Abide with us, for it is toward evening, and now the day has declined.” And He entered in to abide with them. ³⁰ And it came to pass in His reclining with them, having taken the bread, He blessed it; and having broken it, He began giving it to them. ³¹ And their eyes were opened, and they knew Him. And He being seen, vanished from them. ³² And they said to one another, “Was not our heart burning within us as He was speaking with us on the road, as He was opening the Scriptures to us?” ³³ And having risen up that same hour, they returned to Jerusalem, and they found the eleven and those with them gathered together, ³⁴ saying, “The Lord has risen indeed, and He has appeared to Simon.” ³⁵ And they began relating the things on the road, and how He was known to them in the breaking of the bread.

¹⁵ But if the unbeliever separates himself, let him separate himself. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases. But God has called you into peace.

²² Having purified your souls in obedience to the truth unto sincere brotherly love, love one another fervently, out of a pure heart,

¹ I am the true vine and My Father is the vinedresser. ² Every branch not bearing fruit in Me, He takes it away; and every one bearing fruit, He prunes it that it may bear more fruit. ³ Already you are clean by reason of the word that I have spoken to you. ⁴ Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither you, unless you abide in Me. ⁵ I am the vine; you are the branches. The one abiding in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit. For apart from Me you are able to do nothing. ⁶ If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown out like the branch and is dried up, and they gather them and cast them into the fire, and it is burned.

⁴ Let marriage be honorable in all, and the marriage bed undefiled; for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.