Proverbs 17:17

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Proverbs 17:17

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

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The man that has friends must show himself to be a friend, and there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother.

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.

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.

Then Jonathan and David made a covenant because he loved him as his own soul.

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.

And Jonathan swore unto David again because he loved him, for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

Then Jonathan, Saul's son, arose and went to David in the woods and strengthened his hand in God.

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.

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?

Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his soul for his friends.

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,