Proverbs 18:24

Proverbs 18:24
There are friends who may be a man's destruction, but there is a lover who keeps nearer than a brother.

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Proverbs 17:17
A friend is loving at all times, and becomes a brother in times of trouble.

Proverbs 27:10
Do not give up your friend and your father's friend; and do not go into your brother's house in the day of your trouble: better is a neighbour who is near than a brother far off.

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John 15:13
Greater love has no man than this, that a man gives up his life for his friends.

John 15:14
You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do.

John 15:15
No longer do I give you the name of servants; because a servant is without knowledge of what his master is doing: I give you the name of friends, because I have given you knowledge of all the things which my Father has said to me.

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Deuteronomy 13:6
If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife of your heart, or the friend who is as dear to you as your life, working on you secretly says to you, Let us go and give worship to other gods, strange to you and to your fathers;

2 Samuel 1:26
I am full of grief for you, my brother Jonathan: very dear have you been to me: your love for me was a wonder, greater than the love of women.

1 Samuel 20:17
And Jonathan again took an oath to David, because of his love for him: for David was as dear to him as his very soul.

1 Samuel 18:1
Now after David's talk with Saul was ended, the soul of Jonathan was joined with the soul of David, and David became as dear to him as his very life.

1 Samuel 18:3
Then Jonathan and David made an agreement together, because of Jonathan's love for David.

1 Samuel 19:2
And Jonathan said to David, Saul, my father, is purposing your death: so now, take care in the morning, and keep yourself safe in a secret place:

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Proverbs 8:21
So that I may give my lovers wealth for their heritage, making their store-houses full.

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John 6:66
Because of what he said, a number of the disciples went back and would no longer go with him.

John 6:67
So Jesus said to the twelve, Have you a desire to go away?

John 6:68
Then Simon Peter gave this answer: Lord, to whom are we to go? you have the words of eternal life;

John 6:69
And we have faith and are certain that you are the Holy One of God.

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