{"id":14911,"date":"2016-08-07T06:04:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T11:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/?p=14911"},"modified":"2026-05-19T08:08:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:08:22","slug":"iron-sharpens-iron-coloring-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/2016\/08\/07\/iron-sharpens-iron-coloring-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Iron Sharpens Iron Coloring Page"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On the first Sunday of every August (that’s today!), we celebrate National Friendship Day<\/strong>. So today’s coloring page features Proverbs 27:17<\/a>: “As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.”<\/p>\n\n\n

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Click to Print Iron Sharpens Iron Coloring Page<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Friends come in all shapes and sizes. They may be coworkers or classmates, military buddies or moms of preschoolers, next door neighbors or nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regardless of who they are or how you met them, true friends will help you become the best possible version of yourself<\/strong>. They will build you up and encourage you, to be sure. But they will also stretch and challenge you.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Which is exactly what the Bible is talking about <\/strong>when it says that iron sharpens iron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve often thought this is one of the advantages to having a big family<\/a> (besides having built-in friends!). All those siblings serve to sort of knock the rough edges off one another<\/strong> — like rocks in a tumbler. And thanks to this ongoing process, what eventually gets sent out into the world is polished and smooth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This why we’ve always had the rule that if you can’t get along with your brothers and sisters, you can’t spend time with your friends<\/strong>. As important as outside friendships are to us, family is forever, so we do all we can to encourage siblings to build friendships with one another<\/a> first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And here’s that same coloring page in Spanish, for all my friends south of the border! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n

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Click to Print Iron Sharpens Iron in Spanish<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n