I grieve for you, Jonathan, my brother. You were such a friend to me. Your love for me was more wondrous than the love of women.
Proverbs 17:17 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a difficult time. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 A friend loveth at all times, And a brother is born for adversity. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition A friend loves at all times, and is born, as is a brother, for adversity. American Standard Version (1901) A friend loveth at all times; And a brother is born for adversity. Common English Bible Friends love all the time, and kinsfolk are born for times of trouble. Catholic Public Domain Version Whoever is a friend loves at all times. And a brother is proved by distress. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He that is a friend loveth at all times: and a brother is proved in distress. |
I grieve for you, Jonathan, my brother. You were such a friend to me. Your love for me was more wondrous than the love of women.
But in response, Ittai vowed to the king, ‘As the Lord lives and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king is, whether it means life or death, your servant will be there! ’
If you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will come to the Jewish people from another place, but you and your father’s family will be destroyed. Who knows, perhaps you have come to your royal position for such a time as this.’
A contrary person spreads conflict, and a gossip separates close friends.
One with many friends may be harmed, but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.
A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a wife’s nagging is an endless dripping.
All the brothers of a poor person hate him; how much more do his friends keep their distance from him! He may pursue them with words, but they are not there.
For the one who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one Father. That is why Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters,
But Ruth replied: Don’t plead with me to abandon you or to return and not follow you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.
Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as much as himself.
so he told him, ‘My father, Saul, intends to kill you. Be on your guard in the morning and hide in a secret place and stay there.
I’ll go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are and talk to him about you. When I see what he says, I’ll tell you.’
Jonathan once again swore to David in his love for him, because he loved him as he loved himself.
Then Saul’s son Jonathan came to David in Horesh and encouraged him in his faith in God,