Proverbs 17:17

Tree of Life Version

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 Jonathan! Very pleasing were you to me. Wonderful was your love to me more than the love of women.

2 Samuel 15:21

But Ittai answered the king and said, “As Adonai lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in whatever place my lord the king will be, whether for death or for life, there also will your servant be.”

Esther 4:14

For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place—but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows whether you have attained royal status for such a time as this?”

Proverbs 16:28

A perverse person sows strife, and a gossip separates close friends.

Proverbs 18:24

A man with many friends may be harmed by them, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Proverbs 19:13

A foolish son is trouble for his father, and a quarrelsome wife is constant dripping.

Proverbs 19:7

All a poor man’s relatives despise him— how much more his friends avoid him. He pursues them with words, but they are not there.

Hebrews 2:11

For both He who sanctifies and those being sanctified are all from one—so He is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters,

Ruth 1:16

Ruth replied, “Do not plead with me to abandon you, to turn back from following you. For 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

Then Jonathan cut a covenant with David, because he loved him as himself.

1 Samuel 19:2

So Jonathan informed David saying, “My father Saul is seeking to kill you. So now, please be on guard in the morning, and stay in a secret place and hide yourself.

1 Samuel 19:3

I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you will be, and I will speak with my father about you. If I notice anything, I will tell you.”

1 Samuel 20:17

Jonathan made David swear again because of the love he had for him, for he loved him as he loved himself.

1 Samuel 23:16

Then Saul’s son Jonathan arose and went to David at Choresh and strengthened him in God.