Proverbs 27:10

Tree of Life Version

Do not forsake your friend, or your father’s friend, nor go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster— better a neighbor nearby than a brother far off.

Cross References

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 17:17

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

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.

2 Samuel 19:24

Then the king said to Shimei, “You shall not die,” and the king swore it to him.

2 Samuel 21:7

Now the king spared Mephibosheth, son of Jonathan son of Saul, because of Adonai’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan son of Saul.

Acts 23:12

When it was day, the Judean leaders formed a conspiracy. They bound themselves by an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.

Jeremiah 2:5

Thus says Adonai: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me? They walked after worthless things, becoming worthless themselves?

2 Chronicles 24:22

Thus King Joash disregarded the loyalty which his father Jehoiada had shown to him—and slew Jehoiada’s son. As he was dying, he said: “May Adonai see and avenge!”

2 Samuel 19:28

However, he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is like an angel of God. So do what is good in your eyes.

Deuteronomy 22:1

“You are not to watch your brother’s ox or sheep going astray and ignore them —you must certainly bring them back to your brother.