Proverbs 18:24 - Tree of Life Version

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: And there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

The man of many friends [a friend of all the world] will prove himself a bad friend, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

American Standard Version (1901)

He that maketh many friends doeth it to his own destruction; But there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

Common English Bible

There are persons for companionship, but then there are friends who are more loyal than family.

Catholic Public Domain Version

A man amiable to society shall be more friendly than a brother.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

A man amiable in society, shall be more friendly than a brother.

Proverbs 18:24 Tagairtí Cros

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.”

2 Samuel 16:17

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

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.

Proverbs 17:17

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

Proverbs 27:10

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.

Proverbs 27:9

As ointment and perfume gladden the heart, so the sweetness of one’s friend comes from his sincere counsel.

1 Samuel 18:1

Now it came to pass, when David had finished speaking to Saul, Jonathan’s soul was knit to David’s soul, and Jonathan loved him as himself.

1 Samuel 18:3

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