Proverbs 17:17

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:26

I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; you were very dear to me; your love was more remarkable than the love of women.

2 Samuel 15:21

Ittai answered the king and said, “As the Lord lives and as lives my lord the king, only in the place where my lord the king is, whether for death or for life, there alone will your servant be.”

Esther 4:14

For if you remain silent at this time, protection and deliverance for the Jews will be ordained from some other place, but you and your father’s house shall be destroyed. And who knows if you may have attained royal position for such a time as this?”

Proverbs 16:28

A perverse man sows strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.

Proverbs 18:24

A man of many friends may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Proverbs 19:13

A foolish son is the ruin of his father, and the quarrels of a wife are a constant dripping.

Proverbs 19:7

All the brothers of the poor hate him; how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with words, yet they abandon him.

Hebrews 2:11

For both He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all of One. For this reason He is not ashamed to call them brothers,

Ruth 1:16

But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn back from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you stay, I will stay. Your people shall be my people and your 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

Jonathan told David, saying, “My father Saul seeks to kill you. Therefore, be on guard in the morning; stay in a secret place and hide yourself.

1 Samuel 19:3

And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are. Then I will speak about you to my father, and what I observe I will report to you.”

1 Samuel 20:17

Jonathan made David swear again, because he loved him, and he loved him as he loved his own soul.

1 Samuel 23:16

Jonathan, the son of Saul, arose and went to David at Horesh. And he strengthened his hand in God.