7-day plan: Friendship
What makes a good friend, whom to walk with, and the friendship Jesus offers.
One passage a day, with a question to think it over. Your progress stays on this device, no account needed.
Day 1 · The Good Friend
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity
At all times the friend loves, and a brother is born for distress.
Proverbs 17:17 · Read the whole chapterTo think about
What does this passage say about what God is like?
Day 2 · Choosing Whom to Walk With
Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise
Whoever walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of the senseless will suffer harm.
Proverbs 13:20 · Read the whole chapterTo think about
Which word or phrase stays with you, and why?
Day 3 · Friends in the Bible
Jonathan's soul is bound to David's, and they make a covenant
And it came about, when he had finished speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was bound to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. Saul took him on that day and did not let him return to the house of his father. Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
1 Samuel 18:1–3 · Read the whole chapterTo think about
What situation in your life does this passage speak to?
Day 4 · Jesus Calls Us Friends
Jesus says he no longer calls them servants but friends
No one has greater love than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you slaves, because the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
John 15:13–15 · Read the whole chapterTo think about
“Remain in my love” (v. 9). What simple habit would help you stay close to Jesus this week?
Day 5 · The Good Friend
Better a close friend than many companions
A man of many companions comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Proverbs 18:24 · Read the whole chapterTo think about
Who could you share this with this week?
Day 6 · Choosing Whom to Walk With
Paul warns that bad company corrupts good habits
Do not be deceived: Bad company corrupts good morals.
1 Corinthians 15:33 · Read the whole chapterTo think about
What would you like to say to God after reading it?
Day 7 · Friends in the Bible
David and Jonathan part with kisses and tears
The boy went, and David rose from beside the south, and fell on his face to the ground and bowed down three times. And they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David wept more. Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, since we have sworn, both of us, in the name of YHWH, saying, ‘YHWH shall be between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring, forever.’” He rose and went, and Jonathan went into the city.
1 Samuel 20:41–42 · Read the whole chapterTo think about
Looking back over the week, what changed in how you see this topic?