Proverbs 27:10

New American Bible - revised edition

Do not give up your own friend and your father’s friend; do not resort to the house of your kindred when trouble strikes. Better a neighbor near than kin far away.

Cross References

2 Samuel 19:24

Then the king said to Shimei, “You shall not die.” And the king gave him his oath. David and Meribbaal.

2 Samuel 19:28

But he slandered your servant before my lord the king. But my lord the king is like an angel of God. Do whatever seems good to you.

2 Samuel 21:7

The king, however, spared Meribbaal, son of Jonathan, son of Saul, because of the Lord’s oath that formed a bond between David and Saul’s son Jonathan.

2 Chronicles 24:22

Thus King Joash was unmindful of the devotion shown him by Jehoiada, Zechariah’s father, and killed the son. As he was dying, he said, “May the Lord see and avenge.” Joash Punished.

Proverbs 17:17

A friend is a friend at all times, and a brother is born for the time of adversity.

Proverbs 18:24

There are friends who bring ruin, but there are true friends more loyal than a brother.

Proverbs 19:7

All the kin of the poor despise them; how much more do their friends shun them!

Jeremiah 2:5

thus says the Lord: What fault did your ancestors find in me that they withdrew from me, Went after emptiness, and became empty themselves?

Acts 23:12

When day came, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.

Deuteronomy 22:1

You shall not see your neighbor’s ox or sheep going astray and ignore it; you must bring it back.