Friends

“You are My friends if you do what I command you.”

“No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.”

“The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot all about him.”

“One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to spend the night with her.”

“Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a Levite who lived in the remote hill country of Ephraim took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.”

“But she was unfaithful to him and left him to return to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. After she had been there four months,”

“Moreover, you know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me—what he did to Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether, the two commanders of the armies of Israel. He killed them in peacetime to avenge the blood of war. He stained with the blood of war the belt around his waist and the sandals on his feet.”

“So act according to your wisdom, and do not let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.”