Proverbs 18:24

Modern English Version

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

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.”

2 Samuel 16:17

Then Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this the extent of your commitment to your friend? Why have you not gone with your friend?”

2 Samuel 21:7

But the king spared Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul on account of the oath of the Lord that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

Proverbs 17:17

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

Proverbs 27:10

Your own friend and the friend of your father, forsake not, nor go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity; better is a neighbor who is near than a brother far away.

Proverbs 27:9

Ointment and perfume make the heart glad; so the sweetness of a man’s friend brings joy by hearty counsel.

1 Samuel 18:1

When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was bound to the soul of David, so that 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.