Bible verses about "companionship" | WNT

¹³ On that same day two of the disciples were walking to Emmaus, a village seven or eight miles from Jerusalem, ¹⁴ and were conversing about all these recent events; ¹⁵ and, in the midst of their conversation and discussion, Jesus Himself came and joined them, ¹⁶ though they were prevented from recognizing Him. ¹⁷ "What is the subject," He asked them, "on which you are talking so earnestly, as you walk?" And they stood still, looking full of sorrow. ¹⁸ Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered, "Are you a stranger lodging alone in Jerusalem, that you have known nothing of the things that have lately happened in the city?" ¹⁹ "What things?" He asked. "The things about Jesus the Nazarene," they said, "who was a Prophet powerful in work and word before God and all the people; ²⁰ and how our High Priests and Rulers delivered Him up to be sentenced to death, and crucified Him. ²¹ But we were hoping that it was He who was about to ransom Israel. Yes, and moreover it was the day before yesterday that these things happened. ²² And, besides, some of the women of our company have amazed us. They went to the tomb at daybreak, ²³ and, finding that His body was not there, they came and declared to us that they had also seen a vision of angels who said that He was alive. ²⁴ Thereupon some of our party went to the tomb and found things just as the women had said; but Jesus Himself they did not see." ²⁵ "O dull-witted men," He replied, "with minds so slow to believe all that the Prophets have spoken! ²⁶ Was there not a necessity for the Christ thus to suffer, and then enter into His glory?" ²⁷ And, beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them the passages in Scripture which refer to Himself. ²⁸ When they had come near the village to which they were going, He appeared to be going further. ²⁹ But they pressed Him to remain with them. "Because," said they, "it is getting towards evening, and the day is nearly over." So He went in to stay with them. ³⁰ But as soon as He had sat down with them, and had taken the bread and had blessed and broken it, and was handing it to them, ³¹ their eyes were opened and they recognized Him. But He vanished from them. ³² "Were not our hearts," they said to one another, "burning within us while He talked to us on the way and explained the Scriptures to us?" ³³ So they rose and without an hour's delay returned to Jerusalem, and found the Eleven and the rest met together, who said to them, ³⁴ "Yes, it is true: the Master has come back to life. He has been seen by Simon." ³⁵ Then they related what had happened on the way, and how He had been recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.

¹⁵ If, however, the unbeliever is determined to leave, let him or her do so. Under such circumstances the Christian man or woman is no slave; God has called us to live lives of peace.

²² Now that, through your obedience to the truth, you have purified your souls for cherishing sincere brotherly love, you must love another heartily and fervently.

¹ "I am the Vine--the True Vine, and my Father is the vine-dresser. ² Every branch in me--if it bears no fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. ³ Already you are cleansed--through the teaching which I have given you. ⁴ Continue in me, and let me continue in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself--that is, if it does not continue in the vine--so neither can you if you do not continue in me. ⁵ I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who continues in me and in whom I continue bears abundant fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ⁶ If any one does not continue in me, he is like the unfruitful branch which is at once thrown away and then withers up. Such branches they gather up and throw into the fire and they are burned.

⁴ Let marriage be held in honour among all, and let the marriage bed be unpolluted; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.