Proverbs 18:24

A Conservative Version

He who makes many friends [does it] to his own destruction, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Cross References

Proverbs 17:17

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

Proverbs 27:9

Oil and perfume rejoice the heart, so [too] the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.

2 Samuel 1:26

I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan. Very pleasant thou have been to me. Thy love to me was wonderful, exceeding the love of women.

2 Samuel 21:7

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

2 Samuel 16:17

And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? Why did thou not go with thy friend?

Proverbs 27:10

Forsake not thine own friend, and thy father's friend. And go not to thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity. Better is a neighbor nearby than a brother far off.

1 Samuel 18:1

And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

1 Samuel 18:3

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

2 Samuel 15:21

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