'Partners' in the Bible
Will partners bargain for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants?
Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your trade partners; for lambs, rams, and goats they traded with you.
All your allies will force you from your homeland! Your treaty partners will deceive you and overpower you. Your trusted friends will set an ambush for you that will take you by surprise!
So they motioned to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both boats, so that they were about to sink.
and so were James and John, Zebedee's sons, who were Simon's business partners. Then Jesus said to Simon, "Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching people."
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, passive homosexual partners, practicing homosexuals,
Look at the people of Israel. Are not those who eat the sacrifices partners in the altar?
No, I mean that what the pagans sacrifice is to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with demons.
Do not become partners with those who do not believe, for what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
For it is right for me to think this about all of you, because I have you in my heart, since both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel all of you became partners in God's grace together with me.
Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, partners in a heavenly calling, take note of Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess,
For we have become partners with Christ, if in fact we hold our initial confidence firm until the end.
Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as the weaker partners and show them honor as fellow heirs of the grace of life. In this way nothing will hinder your prayers.