Peter declared, “Even if everyone else deserts you, I will never desert you.”
My steps have stayed on your path; I have not wavered from following you.
Many will say they are loyal friends, but who can find one who is truly reliable?
“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?
But after I have been raised from the dead, I will go ahead of you to Galilee and meet you there.”
Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, Peter—this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny three times that you even know me.”
Peter said to him, “Even if everyone else deserts you, I never will.”
Peter said, “Lord, I am ready to go to prison with you, and even to die with you.”
After breakfast Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?” “Yes, Lord,” Peter replied, “you know I love you.” “Then feed my lambs,” Jesus told him.
Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other.
Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves.