8.2-24 Rules on friendship

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8.2-
24 Rules on friendship

How to pick friends who will help your life to be a success in the short term, middle term and long term.

1. Someone who is done with low living and mediocrity.
2. Someone who desires to be the best they can be.
3. Someone who never gets drunk.
4. Someone who is not afraid for the other people to call them "strange".
5. Someone who doesn't waste their energy on self-destructive things.
6. Someone who is clear minded.
7. Someone who is self-controlled.
8. Someone who is not a criminal.
9.  Someone who prays often.
10. Someone who loves deeply.
11. Someone who does not expand the number of people who know your faults.
12. Someone who is hospitable with complaint.
13. Someone who uses their gifts and talents to serve others without bragging.
14. Someone who loves God's word.
15. Someone who works not from their own strength, but from the strength of God.
16. Someone who genuinely gives God the praise for his/her success.
17. Someone who is not surprised by difficult trials.
18. Someone who believes that that which does not kill us educates us.
19. Someone who sees the beauty of the creation and the creator.
20. Someone who is not afraid to be insulted for standing up for a good cause.
21. Someone who doesn't meddle in other people's business.
22. Someone who is never ashamed of his/her friends.
23. Someone who knows that death and judgement and rewards and punishments come after death.
24. Someone who knows that loving friendship is shown in behavior, not just words.

1 Peter 4.
4 Therefore, since Christ has [a]suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same purpose, because he who has [b]suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, 2 so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. 3 For the time already past is sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles, [c]having pursued a course of sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties and [d]abominable idolatries. 4 In all this, they are surprised that you do not run with them into the same excesses of dissipation, and they malign you; 5 but they will give account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. 6 For the gospel has for this purpose been [e]preached even to those who are dead, that though they are judged in the flesh as men, they may live in the spirit according to the will of God.

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