Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Bible References

General references

Proverbs 18:24
The man that has friends must show himself to be a friend, and there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother.
Proverbs 19:7
All the brethren of the poor hate him; how much more shall his friends separate themselves from him? He shall seek their friendship and not find it.
Ruth 1:16
And Ruth said, Do not intreat me to leave thee or to return from following after thee, for wherever thou goest, I will go; and wherever thou shalt lodge, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people and thy God my God.
1 Samuel 18:3
Then Jonathan and David made a covenant because he loved him as his own soul.
1 Samuel 19:2
But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David, and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul, my father, seeks to kill thee: now, therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning and abide in a secret place and hide thyself.
1 Samuel 20:17
And Jonathan swore unto David again because he loved him, for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
1 Samuel 23:16
Then Jonathan, Saul's son, arose and went to David in the woods and strengthened his hand in God.
2 Samuel 1:26
I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan; very pleasant hast thou been unto me; thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
Esther 4:14
For if thou art silent at this time, then enlargement and deliverance shall arise to the Jews from another place, but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed; and who knows whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
John 15:13
Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his soul for his friends.
Hebrews 2:11
For both he that sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all of one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,