Proverbs 17:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ A friend loves at all times, and kinsfolk are born to share 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.

Proverbs 17:17 Cross References

Proverbs 18:24

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

1 Samuel 20:17

Jonathan made David swear again by his love for him, for he loved him as he loved his own life.

Proverbs 19:7

If the poor are hated even by their kin, how much more are they shunned by their friends! When they call after them, they are not there.

1 Samuel 18:3

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

Hebrews 2:11

For the one who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one Father. For this reason Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters,

Ruth 1:16

But Ruth said, “Do not press me to leave you, to turn back from following you! Where you go, I will go; where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people and your God my God.

Esther 4:14

For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. Who knows? Perhaps you have come to royal dignity for just such a time as this.”

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.

1 Samuel 23:16

Saul’s son Jonathan set out and came to David at Horesh; there he strengthened his hand through the Lord.

1 Samuel 19:2

Jonathan told David, “My father Saul is trying to kill you; therefore be on guard tomorrow morning; stay in a secret place and hide yourself.

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.”

1 Samuel 19:3

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

Proverbs 16:28

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

Proverbs 19:13

A stupid child is ruin to a father, and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.