Proverbs 18:24 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁴ There are friends who pretend to be friends, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

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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.

Proverbs 18:24 Cross References

Proverbs 17:17

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

Proverbs 27:9

Oil and perfume make the heart glad, but the soul is torn by trouble.

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 21:7

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

2 Samuel 16:17

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

Proverbs 27:10

Your friend, and your father's friend, do not forsake; and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away.

1 Samuel 18:1

When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit 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.

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.”