Bible verses about "companionship" | Moffatt

¹³ That very day two of them were on their way to a village called Emmaus about seven miles from Jerusalem. ¹⁴ They were conversing about all these events, ¹⁵ and during their conversation and discussion Jesus himself approached and walked beside them, ¹⁶ though they were prevented from recognizing him. ¹⁷ He said to them, "What is all this you are debating on your walk?" They stopped, looking downcast, ¹⁸ and one of them, called Cleopas, answered him, "Are you a lone stranger in Jerusalem, not to know what has been happening there?" ¹⁹ "What is that?" he said to them. They replied, "All about Jesus of Nazaret! To God and all the people he was a prophet strong in action and utterance, ²⁰ but the high priests and our rulers delivered him up to be sentenced to death and crucified him. ²¹ Our own hope was that he would be the redeemer of Israel; but he is dead, and that is three days ago! ²² Though some women of our number gave us a surprise; they were at the tomb early in the morning ²³ and could not find his body, but they came to tell us they had actually seen a vision of angels who declared he was alive. ²⁴ Some of our company did go to the tomb and found things exactly as the women had said, but they did not see him." ²⁵ He said to them, "O foolish men, with hearts so slow to believe, after all the prophets have declared! ²⁶ Had not the Christ to suffer thus and so enter his glory?" ²⁷ Then he began with Moses and all the prophets and interpreted to them the passages referring to himself throughout the scriptures. ²⁸ Now they approached the village to which they were going. He pretended to be going further on, ²⁹ but they pressed him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is getting towards evening and the day has now declined." So he went in to stay with them. ³⁰ And as he lay at table with them he took the loaf, blessed it, broke it and handed it to them. ³¹ Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, but he vanished from their sight. ³² And they said to one another, "Did not our hearts glow within us when he was talking to us on the road, opening up the scriptures for us?" ³³ So they got up and returned that very hour to Jerusalem, where they found the eleven and their friends all gathered, ³⁴ who told them that the Lord had really risen and that he had appeared to Simon. ³⁵ Then they related their own experience on the road and how they had recognized him when he broke the loaf.

¹⁵ (Should the unbelieving partner be determined to separate, however, separation let it be; in such cases the Christian brother or sister is not tied to marriage.) It is to a life of peace that God has called us.

²² Now that your obedience to the Truth has purified your souls for a brotherly love that is sincere, love one another heartily and steadily.

¹ [Chapters 15 & 16 are placed in the middle of verse 13:31] "I am the real Vine, and my Father is the vine-dresser; ² he cuts away any branch on me which is not bearing fruit, and cleans every branch which does bear fruit, to make it bear richer fruit. ³ You are already clean, by the word I have spoken to you. ⁴ Remain in me, as I remain in you: just as a branch cannot bear fruit by itself, without remaining on the vine, neither can you, unless you remain in me. ⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches. He who remains in me, as I in him, bears rich fruit (because apart from me you can do nothing). ⁶ If anyone does not remain in me he is thrown aside like a branch and he withers up; then the branches are gathered and thrown into the fire to be burned.

⁴ Let marriage be held in honour by all, and keep the marriage-bed unstained. God will punish the vicious and adulterous.