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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A man who has friends may be broken up, but there is a Lover who sticks closer than a brother.

All the brothers of the poor man hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him? He pursues them with words, yet they are lacking.

And Ruth said, Do not beg me to leave you, to return from following after you. For where you go, I will go. Where you stay, I will stay. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.

And Jonathan and David cut a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

But Jonathan, Saul's son, loved David very much. And Jonathan told David, saying, My father Saul seeks to kill you. And now please be careful until morning, and stay in a secret place, and hide yourself.

And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him. For he loved him as he loved his own soul.

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

I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. Very pleasant you have been to me. Your love to me was wonderful, more than the love of women.

For if you are completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance shall arise to the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house shall be destroyed. And who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for a time like this?

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

For both He who sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all of One, for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brothers,