Proverbs 18:24

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

There are friends who pretend to be friends, 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; very pleasant have you been to me; your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

2 Samuel 15:21

But Ittai answered the king, “As the Lord lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, there also will your servant be.”

2 Samuel 16:17

And Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your loyalty to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?”

2 Samuel 21:7

But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Saul's son Jonathan, because of the oath of the Lord which was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

Proverbs 17:17

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

Proverbs 27:10

Your friend, and your father's friend, do not forsake; and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away.

Proverbs 27:9

Oil and perfume make the heart glad, but the soul is torn by trouble.

1 Samuel 18:1

When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

1 Samuel 18:3

Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul.