Proverbs 17:17

The Scriptures 2009

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:26

“I am distressed for you, my brother Yehonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wondrous, Surpassing the love of women.

2 Samuel 15:21

And Ittai answered the sovereign and said, “As יהוה lives, and as my master the sovereign lives, in whatever place my master the sovereign is, whether in death or life, let your servant also be there.”

Esther 4:14

“For if you keep entirely silent at this time, relief and deliverance shall arise for the Yehuḏim from another place, while you and your father’s house perish. And who knows whether you have come to the reign for such a time as this?”

Proverbs 16:28

A perverse man sends forth strife, And a whisperer separates intimate friends.

Proverbs 18:24

A man of many friends might come to ruin, But there is a Loving One Who sticks closer than a brother!

Proverbs 19:13

A foolish son is a calamity to his father, And the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping.

Proverbs 19:7

All the brothers of the poor shall hate him; How much more shall his friends go far from him! He pursues promises – they are gone!

Hebrews 2:11

For both He who sets apart and those who are being set apart are all of One, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brothers,

Ruth 1:16

But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you, or to go back from following after you. For wherever you go, I go; and wherever you stop over, I stop over. Your people is my people, and your Elohim is my Elohim.

1 Samuel 18:3

And Yehonathan and Dawiḏ made a covenant, because he loved him as his own being.

1 Samuel 19:2

and Yehonathan declared to Dawiḏ, saying, “My father Sha’ul seeks to put you to death. And now, please be on your guard until morning, and dwell in secrecy, and hide.

1 Samuel 19:3

“And I myself shall go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and speak with my father about you, and shall see, and shall let you know.”

1 Samuel 20:17

And Yehonathan again made Dawiḏ swear, because he loved him, for he loved him as he loved his own being.

1 Samuel 23:16

And Yehonathan, Sha’ul’s son, arose and went to Dawiḏ at Ḥoresh and strengthened his hand in Elohim,