Proverbs 27:10

Modern English Version

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.

Cross References

2 Samuel 19:24

Then Mephibosheth the son of Saul went down to meet the king. He had neither dressed his feet nor trimmed his mustache, nor washed his clothes from the day the king left, until the day he came back in peace.

2 Samuel 19:28

For all my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king. Yet you set your servant among those who eat at your table. What right do I have to cry out any more to the king?”

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.

2 Chronicles 24:22

And Joash the king did not remember the kindness that Jehoiada the father of Zechariah had shown him, but killed his son. As he was dying, he said, “May the Lord see and avenge!”

Proverbs 17:17

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

Proverbs 18:24

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

Proverbs 19:7

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.

Jeremiah 2:5

Thus says the Lord: What iniquity have your fathers found in Me, that they have gone far from Me, and have walked after vanity and have become vain?

Acts 23:12

At daybreak some of the Jews conspired under oath, saying they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

Deuteronomy 22:1

You must not see your brother’s ox or his sheep go astray and hide yourself from them. You must certainly bring them back to your brother.