Proverbs 17:17

New International Version

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:26

I grieve for you, Jonathan my brother; you were very dear to me. Your love for me was wonderful, more wonderful than that of women.

2 Samuel 15:21

But Ittai replied to the king, “As surely as the Lord lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king may be, whether it means life or death, there will your servant be.”

Esther 4:14

For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?”

Proverbs 16:28

A perverse person stirs up conflict, and a gossip separates close friends.

Proverbs 18:24

One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Proverbs 19:13

A foolish child is a father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like the constant dripping of a leaky roof.

Proverbs 19:7

The poor are shunned by all their relatives— how much more do their friends avoid them! Though the poor pursue them with pleading, they are nowhere to be found.

Hebrews 2:11

Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters.

Ruth 1:16

But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.

1 Samuel 18:3

And Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself.

1 Samuel 19:2

and warned him, “My father Saul is looking for a chance to kill you. Be on your guard tomorrow morning; go into hiding and stay there.

1 Samuel 19:3

I will go out and stand with my father in the field where you are. I’ll speak to him about you and will tell you what I find out.”

1 Samuel 20:17

And Jonathan had David reaffirm his oath out of love for him, because he loved him as he loved himself.

1 Samuel 23:16

And Saul’s son Jonathan went to David at Horesh and helped him find strength in God.