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Proverbs 18:24
One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. (niv)
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John 15:13-14
Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.You are my friends if you do what I command. (niv)
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1 Samuel 18 3
And Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself. (niv)
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1 Samuel 20 17
And Jonathan had David reaffirm his oath out of love for him, because he loved him as he loved himself. (niv)
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2 Samuel 1 26
I grieve for you, Jonathan my brother; you were very dear to me. Your love for me was wonderful, more wonderful than that of women. (niv)
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Hebrews 2:11
Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters. (niv)
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Ruth 1:16
But Ruth replied,“ Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. (niv)
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Proverbs 19:7
The poor are shunned by all their relatives— how much more do their friends avoid them! Though the poor pursue them with pleading, they are nowhere to be found. (niv)
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2 Samuel 9 1-2 Samuel 9 13
David asked,“ Is there anyone still left of the house of Saul to whom I can show kindness for Jonathan’s sake?”Now there was a servant of Saul’s household named Ziba. They summoned him to appear before David, and the king said to him,“ Are you Ziba?”“ At your service,” he replied.The king asked,“ Is there no one still alive from the house of Saul to whom I can show God’s kindness?” Ziba answered the king,“ There is still a son of Jonathan; he is lame in both feet.”“ Where is he?” the king asked. Ziba answered,“ He is at the house of Makir son of Ammiel in Lo Debar.”So King David had him brought from Lo Debar, from the house of Makir son of Ammiel.When Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, he bowed down to pay him honor. David said,“ Mephibosheth!”“ At your service,” he replied.“ Don’t be afraid,” David said to him,“ for I will surely show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan. I will restore to you all the land that belonged to your grandfather Saul, and you will always eat at my table.”Mephibosheth bowed down and said,“ What is your servant, that you should notice a dead dog like me?”Then the king summoned Ziba, Saul’s steward, and said to him,“ I have given your master’s grandson everything that belonged to Saul and his family.You and your sons and your servants are to farm the land for him and bring in the crops, so that your master’s grandson may be provided for. And Mephibosheth, grandson of your master, will always eat at my table.”( Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)Then Ziba said to the king,“ Your servant will do whatever my lord the king commands his servant to do.” So Mephibosheth ate at David’s table like one of the king’s sons.Mephibosheth had a young son named Mika, and all the members of Ziba’s household were servants of Mephibosheth.And Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, because he always ate at the king’s table; he was lame in both feet. (niv)
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Esther 4:14
For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?” (niv)
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1 Samuel 19 2
and warned him,“ My father Saul is looking for a chance to kill you. Be on your guard tomorrow morning; go into hiding and stay there. (niv)
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1 Samuel 23 16
And Saul’s son Jonathan went to David at Horesh and helped him find strength in God. (niv)
