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Proverbs 18:24
A person of too many friends comes to ruin, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
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John 15:13-14
Greater love has no one than this, that a person will lay down his life for his friends.You are My friends if you do what I command you.
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1 Samuel 18 3
Then Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself.
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1 Samuel 20 17
And Jonathan made David vow again because of his love for him, because he loved him as he loved his own life.
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2 Samuel 1 26
I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; You have been a close friend to me. Your love for me was more wonderful Than the love of women.
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Hebrews 2:11
For both He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one Father; for this reason He is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters,
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Ruth 1:16
But Ruth said,“ Do not plead with me to leave you or to turn back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you sleep, I will sleep. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God.
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Proverbs 19:7
All the brothers of a poor person hate him; How much more do his friends abandon him! He pursues them with words, but they are gone.
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2 Samuel 9 1-2 Samuel 9 13
Then David said,“ Is there anyone still left of the house of Saul, so that I could show him kindness for Jonathan’s sake?”Now there was a servant of the house of Saul whose name was Ziba, and they summoned him to David; and the king said to him,“ Are you Ziba?” And he said,“ I am your servant.”Then the king said,“ Is there no one remaining of the house of Saul to whom I could show the kindness of God?” And Ziba said to the king,“ There is still a son of Jonathan, one who is disabled in both feet.”So the king said to him,“ Where is he?” And Ziba said to the king,“ Behold, he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, in Lo debar.”Then King David sent messengers who brought him from the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, from Lo debar.Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, came to David and fell on his face and prostrated himself. And David said,“ Mephibosheth.” And he said,“ Here is your servant!”Then David said to him,“ Do not be afraid, for I will assuredly show kindness to you for the sake of your father Jonathan, and I will restore to you all the land of your grandfather Saul; and you yourself shall eat at my table regularly.”Again he prostrated himself, and said,“ What is your servant, that you should be concerned about a dead dog like me?”Then the king summoned Saul’s servant Ziba and said to him,“ Everything that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master’s grandson.You and your sons and your servants shall cultivate the land for him, and you shall bring in the produce so that your master’s grandson will have food to eat; nevertheless Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, shall eat at my table regularly.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.Then Ziba said to the king,“ In accordance with everything that my lord the king commands his servant, so your servant will do.” So Mephibosheth ate at David’s table as one of the king’s sons.Mephibosheth had a young son whose name was Mica. And all who lived in the house of Ziba were servants to Mephibosheth.So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, because he ate at the king’s table regularly. And he was disabled in his two feet.
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Esther 4:14
For if you keep silent at this time, liberation and rescue will arise for the Jews from another place, and you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?”
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1 Samuel 19 2
So Jonathan informed David, saying,“ My father Saul is seeking to put you to death. Now then, please be on your guard in the morning, and stay in a hiding place and conceal yourself.
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1 Samuel 23 16
And Jonathan, Saul’s son, set out and went to David at Horesh, and encouraged him in God.
