Proverbs 17:17 - Revised Standard Version

¹⁷ A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ A friend loveth at all times, And a brother is born for adversity.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ A friend loves at all times, and is born, as is a brother, for adversity.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ A friend loveth at all times; And a brother is born for adversity.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Friends love all the time, and kinsfolk are born for times of trouble.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ Whoever is a friend loves at all times. And a brother is proved by distress.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ He that is a friend loveth at all times: and a brother is proved in distress.

Proverbs 17:17 Cross References

2 Samuel 1:26

I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; very pleasant have you been to me; your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

2 Samuel 15:21

But Ittai answered the king, “As the Lord lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, there also will your servant be.”

Esther 4:14

For if you keep silence at such a time as this, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another quarter, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

Proverbs 16:28

A perverse man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.

Proverbs 18:24

There are friends who pretend to be friends, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Proverbs 19:13

A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.

Proverbs 19:7

All a poor man's brothers hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him! He pursues them with words, but does not have them.

Hebrews 2:11

For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified have all one origin. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

Ruth 1:16

But Ruth said, “Entreat me not to leave you or to return from following you; for where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God;

1 Samuel 18:3

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

1 Samuel 19:2

And Jonathan told David, “Saul my father seeks to kill you; therefore take heed to yourself in the morning, stay in a secret place and hide yourself;

1 Samuel 19:3

and I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will speak to my father about you; and if I learn anything I will tell you.”

1 Samuel 20:17

And Jonathan made David swear again by his love for him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

1 Samuel 23:16

And Jonathan, Saul's son, rose, and went to David at Horesh, and strengthened his hand in God.