Proverbs 18:24 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁴ Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one’s sibling.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: And there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ The man of many friends [a friend of all the world] will prove himself a bad friend, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ He that maketh many friends doeth it to his own destruction; But there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

Common English Bible

²⁴ There are persons for companionship, but then there are friends who are more loyal than family.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ A man amiable to society shall be more friendly than a brother.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁴ A man amiable in society, shall be more friendly than a brother.

Proverbs 18:24 Krydshenvisninger

2 Samuel 1:26

I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; greatly beloved were you 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 may be, whether for death or for life, there also your servant will be.”

2 Samuel 16:17

Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your loyalty to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?”

2 Samuel 21:7

But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Saul’s son Jonathan, because of the oath of the Lord that was between them, between David and Jonathan son of Saul.

Proverbs 17:17

A friend loves at all times, and kinsfolk are born to share adversity.

Proverbs 27:10

Do not forsake your friend or the friend of your parent; do not go to the house of your kindred in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is nearby than kindred who are far away.

Proverbs 27:9

Perfume and incense make the heart glad, but the soul is torn by trouble.

1 Samuel 18:1

When David had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was bound to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

1 Samuel 18:3

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