Friends are not so because they merely claim to be. They are so because they refuse to cite humanity when it might appear to provide faint support for disposing of those with whom friendship is claimed. God invested that which is Perfect into that which is imperfect and wholeness into that which is broken.
Christian love is never an enabler or the issuer of a license for bad behavior. However, it is gracious and discerning.

​1 Peter 4:8
8 Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

Of all the places we go in life and no matter how severe, how personal and painful, the situations may become, no matter how dark, the places grow, the one place where we will never be, is alone.

​Relational trust and integrity are essential between the one climbing the latter and the one holding it. Sometimes the assignment takes one to the top of the latter and sometimes the assignment is served at the foot of the latter. Both are essential to completing the overall mission.

Your faith in Christ is a hardship for the devil.
1 John 5:4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.

Jesus as The Truth, is the Authoring Prince and Singular Completer of our faith. The Holy Spirit is the sole Guide into and communicator of the otherwise unknowable Truth that anchors our faith in its author and Completer. Our Father is the ultimate rewarder of our faith.

Hebrews 12:1
Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

John 16:13
​However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.