Bad Friends Leave Scars Sometimes

[Wynona]

I now consider a friend someone who will actually help you if they can when you need it.

I used to have friends that included me when it was convenient in plans they had already made but were actually jealous and backbiting towards me.

I regret putting up with it for so long. Its hard to trust people now.

Im glad I have friends who do care and are real. Sometimes I think I still keep too much to myself but its getting better.

 

[quietthinker]

I now consider a friend someone who will actually help you if they can when you need it.

I used to have friends that included me when it was convenient in plans they had already made but were actually jealous and backbiting towards me.

I regret putting up with it for so long. Its hard to trust people now.

Im glad I have friends who do care and are real. Sometimes I think I still keep too much to myself but its getting better.

Friendship.....ahhhhh, the rarity!

 

[Bob Estey]

I now consider a friend someone who will actually help you if they can when you need it.

I used to have friends that included me when it was convenient in plans they had already made but were actually jealous and backbiting towards me.

I regret putting up with it for so long. Its hard to trust people now.

Im glad I have friends who do care and are real. Sometimes I think I still keep too much to myself but its getting better.

One thing for sure: Pray constantly (1 Thessalonians 5:17).

I am alone (with the Lord) the vast majority of the time, though I am active in my church and serve on a board of directors at my apartment cooperative.

I've never, as an adult, sought out friends. Maybe I should. One does have to be careful who they befriend - don't befriend people who will be bad influences on you.

 

[Rockerduck]

Just remember, your friends build you up, and your enemies tear you down. Choose your friends wisely.

2 Corinthians 6:14 - Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?

 

[Wynona]

Just remember, your friends build you up, and your enemies tear you down. Choose your friends wisely.

2 Corinthians 6:14 - Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?

Oh yeah, I definitely had to let some go for bad influence

 

[Nancy]

I now consider a friend someone who will actually help you if they can when you need it.

I used to have friends that included me when it was convenient in plans they had already made but were actually jealous and backbiting towards me.

I regret putting up with it for so long. Its hard to trust people now.

Im glad I have friends who do care and are real. Sometimes I think I still keep too much to myself but its getting better.

"Bad Friends Leave Scars Sometimes"

Bad friends leave scars ALL the time, hard and heart-rending it is. Right now all I want to do is give those so called "friends" of yours such a slap! And, that was being kind....the old me would say I want to punch them in the throat!

I promise I will not hurt you my dear friend, won't be punching anything either, lol. I love you and know you are stronger than you think, God say's not to trust man...but I will do all to never let that happen here sister!

 

[ShineTheLight]

How about this.

Proverbs 27:6
Faithful are the wounds from a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

Ecclesiastes 7:5
It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

There's the passage about it being better to suffer for good than for evil. Whether the friends are good or bad, you're going to suffer either way in the life of Christ. You would rather want to suffer for the good than the bad.

 

[TLHKAJ]

Just a few friendship verses...

Proverbs 17:17
[17]A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Proverbs 27:17
[17]Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
[9]Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
[10]For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
[11]Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?
[12]And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Proverbs 18:24
[24]A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

Proverbs 25:11
[11]A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

1 Thessalonians 5:11
[11]Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

Galatians 6:2
[2]Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

Proverbs 27:9-10
[9]Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
[10]Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.

1 Corinthians 15:33
[33]Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

 

[Ritajanice]

I thank God I had bad friends and a fractured family growing up in...no pain no gain...God has healed me from my past hurts, brought me to a place of understanding all the pain that I endured.

Gave me great insight into why some people behave the way they do, God is Love and understands every single one of us...it’s understanding where the other person is coming from...I’m not saying that you have to put up with toxic people.....I did for many, many years...very long story...I learnt so much from those experiences.....

I now class myself a strong woman of God!..

I had to learn what Love was, I only knew abuse...so Love from others scared me as I couldn’t relate to it.....yet I could relate to Gods Love, when he filled my heart with his Love until it was overflowing...Born Again by His Living Loving Spirit....my spirit recognised His straight away as he was indwelling my spirit...Spirit gives birth to spirit...

Praise God always...for the good the bad and the downright ugly!!

He works everything out according to his purpose and plan...we serve a Living God, not a book.

God is Alive in Spirit and he’s alive in our spirit...that’s why we walk in faith knowing in our “ heart, spirit “ that he is always with us, never ever to leave...

 

[Wynona]

I finally let my last terrible friendship go. This has been my pattern---getting close to people who want others to think they're trying to do better and truly aren't.

I find it disturbing how much Ive done this. We all have flaws to overcome but I seem to have a penchant for the most toxic, destructive, people. Not only are they bad people---they make bad friends. And I wanted friendship badly enough to tolerate all of it.

A friend is someone who will actually help you and reciprocate your support. Everyone doesn't need that label.

 

[Rockerduck]

I finally let my last terrible friendship go. This has been my pattern---getting close to people who want others to think they're trying to do better and truly aren't.

I find it disturbing how much Ive done this. We all have flaws to overcome but I seem to have a penchant for the most toxic, destructive, people. Not only are they bad people---they make bad friends. And I wanted friendship badly enough to tolerate all of it.

A friend is someone who will actually help you and reciprocate your support. Everyone doesn't need that label.

The Holy Spirit let me know it's a lonely life for a Christian. That is, finding good enough friends to fellowship with. All Christians are at a different walk. Many social friends are found at Church, but close friends are hard to find, the ones that will call and check on you, visit you in the hospital type friends.

 

[Wynona]

I love this skit because I've been both the bad and good example in both the one getting and giving advice!