Close frenz make us moa happy wen eryting stay goin good. An dey help us hang in dea wen tings not so good. But da Bible tell us fo watch out, cuz not erybody stay one good kine fren. So how you can pick good kine frenz? We go check out dese questions.

1. How da frenz you pick goin affeck you?

We start fo ack jalike da peopo we hang out wit. Dis can be good o bad. An dass true if we spend time wit dem in person, o on top da Internet. Jalike da Bible tell: “Hang out wit smart kine guys, you come smart jalike dem. But if you good frenz wit stupid peopo [da guys who no love Jehovah], you goin come jalike dem, an suffa.” (Smart Guys 13:20) Frenz who love an worship Jehovah can help you fo come close to him an fo make good kine choices. But close frenz who no love Jehovah can pull us away from him. Dass how come da Bible tell us fo be akamai wen we pick oua frenz. Wen we get frenz who love God, dat goin be good fo us an dem. We can “give each odda good kine words an help each odda come moa solid inside.”—1 Fo Da Tessalonika Peopo 5:11.

2. How da frenz you pick goin make Jehovah feel?

Jehovah kea who he pick az his frenz. “Da peopo dat stay do wass right, dey stay his good frenz.” (Smart Guys 3:32) How Jehovah goin feel if we pick frenz who no love him? He would be all bum out wit you. (Read um From James 4:4.) But, if we no hang out wit da bad kine peopo, an come close to Jehovah an da guys who love him, den he goin be happy wit us an pick us az his frenz.—Songs Fo God 15:1-4.

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4. We can come good frenz wit peopo who no stay like us

Da Bible talk about David an Jonathan, two guys from befoa time. Dey was supa close frenz, even if dey wen grow up diffren, o no was same age. Read um 1 Samuel 18:1, an den talk story about dis question:

• How come oua frenz no gotta be same age, o raise da same way az us?

Read um Fo Da Rome Peopo 1:11, 12, an den talk story about dis question:

• How frenz who love Jehovah can help each odda stay moa strong an moa solid inside?

Inside dis video, try look how one young braddah wen find frenz in places he neva even tink. Play um da VIDEO, an den talk story about da questions afta.

• Inside da video, how come Keli’i’s parents was worried about da kine frenz he had in school?

• How come at firs he wen like be frenz wit dem?

• Wat wen help him fo no be all by himself?

 5. How you can make good kine frenz

 WAT WE WEN TALK ABOUT

Fo be akamai wen we pick oua frenz, dat goin make Jehovah happy an is good fo us.

Wat You Wen Learn

• How come da kine frenz we pick stay importan to Jehovah?

• Wat kine frenz we gotta stay away from?

• How you can come tight frenz wit da right kine peopo?