“...teach me about true friendship”

True friendship is to lay down your life in love, but True love only comes - from above. God showed it when He sent His only Son, to die for you as if you were the only one. Even when you were at our worst and Him still cursed, He gave His life and put you first. On the cross to set you free to live, His blood, His life, His all did give. He took your torment, pain and Hell, and rose again so He could dwell, in your heart with all His love, forever united with Him thereof.

The love of the world is impure and can not endure, but the love of the Almighty is undefiled and forever sure. Thus true friendship extends from the love He sends, for by His love we befriend - until the end.

John 15:13
13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.
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1 John 3:16a
16 By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us.
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1 Thess 5:9-10
9 For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.
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2 Cor 5:15
…and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.
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John 1:12-13
12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:
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1 John 3:1
3 How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!
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Jer 31:3
3 The Lord has appeared of old to me, saying:
"Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love;
Therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.
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Rom 5:5
5 Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
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Ezek 36:26
26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
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Deut 30:6
6 And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
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Matt 5:8
8 Blessed are the pure in heart,
For they shall see God.
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Deut 30:14
14 But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.
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Rom 10:8-11
8 But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the word of faith which we preach): 9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
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Deut 30:19-20
19 I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; 20 that you may love the Lord your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days;
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1 Cor 13:13
13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
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1 John 4:11
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
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1 John 4:12-13
12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.
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John 13:34-35
34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. 35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."
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John 15:12-14
12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.
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