Proverbs 17:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁷ A friend loveth 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 thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

2 Samuel 15:21

And Ittai answered the king, and said, As the LORD liveth, and as my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, even there also will thy servant be.

Esther 4:14

For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall relief and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place, but thou and thy father's house shall perish: and who knoweth whether thou art not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

Proverbs 16:28

A froward man scattereth abroad strife: And a whisperer separateth chief friends.

Proverbs 18:24

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

Proverbs 19:13

A foolish son is the calamity of his father: And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

Proverbs 19:7

All the brethren of the poor do hate him: How much more do his friends go far from him! He pursueth them with words, but they are gone.

Hebrews 2:11

For both he that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

Ruth 1:16

And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave thee, and to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:

1 Samuel 18:3

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

1 Samuel 19:2

And Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to slay thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself in the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself:

1 Samuel 19:3

and I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where thou art, and I will commune with my father of thee; and if I see aught, I will tell thee.

1 Samuel 20:17

And Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had to him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

1 Samuel 23:16

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