so where does having friends/family come in? should I rid myself of friends and family because they serve no other purpose than to make my life enjoyable?
Mark 12:29-31
Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
John 13:34-35 ESV / 829 helpful votes
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
John 15:13 ESV / 667 helpful votes
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 603 helpful votes
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
1 John 3:16 ESV / 99 helpful votes
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
James 2:8 ESV / 91 helpful votes
If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
1 Corinthians 13:1-3 ESV / 66 helpful votes
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 1,053 helpful votes
But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
Exodus 20:12 ESV / 546 helpful votes
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lordyour God is giving you.
Hebrews 10:24-25 ESV / 264 helpful votes
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
Job 6:14 ESV / 261 helpful votes
“He who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 ESV / 748 helpful votes
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 537 helpful votes
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.
1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 514 helpful votes
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
Proverbs 27:10 ESV / 84 helpful votes
Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend, and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away.
Proverbs 18:1
Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment.