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Proverbs 18:24
A man of many companions may be ruined, 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 someone lay down his life for his friends.You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
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1 Samuel 18 3
Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
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1 Samuel 20 17
Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had to him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
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2 Samuel 1 26
I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, passing 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, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,
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Ruth 1:16
Ruth said,“ Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God.
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Proverbs 19:7
All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.
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2 Samuel 9 1-2 Samuel 9 13
David said,“ Is there yet any who is left of Saul’s house, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan’s sake?”There was of Saul’s house a servant whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David; and the king said to him,“ Are you Ziba?” He said,“ I am your servant.”The king said,“ Is there not yet any of Saul’s house, that I may show the kindness of God to him?” Ziba said to the king,“ Jonathan still has a son, who is lame in his feet.”The king said to him,“ Where is he?” Ziba said to the king,“ Behold, he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, in Lo Debar.”Then king David sent, and brought him out of 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 showed respect. David said,“ Mephibosheth.” He answered,“ Behold, your servant!”David said to him,“ Don’t be afraid; for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father’s sake, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your father. You will eat bread at my table continually.”He bowed down, and said,“ What is your servant, that you should look at such a dead dog as I am?”Then the king called to Ziba, Saul’s servant, and said to him,“ All that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master’s son.Till the land for him, you, your sons, and your servants. Bring in the harvest, that your master’s son may have bread to eat; but Mephibosheth your master’s son will always eat bread at my table.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.Then Ziba said to the king,“ According to all that my lord the king commands his servant, so your servant will do.” So Mephibosheth ate at the king’s table, like one of the king’s sons.Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Mica. All that lived in Ziba’s house were servants to Mephibosheth.So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem; for he ate continually at the king’s table. He was lame in both his feet.
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Esther 4:14
For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you haven’t come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
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1 Samuel 19 2
Jonathan told David, saying,“ Saul my father seeks to kill you. Now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, and live in a secret place, and hide yourself.
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1 Samuel 23 16
Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose, and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.
