Proverbs 17:17

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Summary

Proverbs 17:17

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

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A man with many friends may be harmed,
but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.

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All the brothers of a poor man hate him;
how much more do his friends
keep their distance from him!
He may pursue them with words,
but they are not there.

But Ruth replied:

Do not persuade me to leave you
or go back and not follow you.
For wherever you go, I will go,
and wherever you live, I will live;
your people will be my people,
and your God will be my God.

Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as much as himself.

so he told him: “My father Saul intends to kill you. Be on your guard in the morning and hide in a secret place and stay there.

Jonathan once again swore to David in his love for him, because he loved him as he loved himself.

Then Saul’s son Jonathan came to David in Horesh and encouraged him in his faith in God,

I grieve for you, Jonathan, my brother.
You were such a friend to me.
Your love for me was more wonderful
than the love of women.

If you keep silent at this time, liberation and deliverance will come to the Jewish people from another place, but you and your father’s house will be destroyed. Who knows, perhaps you have come to your royal position for such a time as this.”

No one has greater love than this, that someone would lay down his life for his friends.

For the One who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one Father. That is why Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers,