A person of too many friends comes to ruin, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

滥交朋友的，自取败坏；但有一朋友比弟兄更亲密。

朋友太多的人，必受损害；但有一知己比兄弟更亲密。

朋友太多的人，必受损害；但有一知己比兄弟更亲密。

滥交友，自招损；得知己，胜手足。

朋友众多的人，终必彼此破裂，但有一位朋友，比兄弟更亲密。

朋友太多的人，会受损害；但有一知己，比兄弟更亲密。

濫交朋友的，自取敗壞；但有一朋友比弟兄更親密。

朋友太多的人，必受損害；但有一知己比兄弟更親密。

朋友太多的人，必受損害；但有一知己比兄弟更親密。

濫交友，自招損；得知己，勝手足。

朋友眾多的人，終必彼此破裂，但有一位朋友，比兄弟更親密。

有些朋友只是做同伴；但有愛友、比弟兄更親密。

朋友太多的人，會受損害；但有一知己，比兄弟更親密。

濫交多友、必致敗亡、有友一人、親於昆弟、

泛交眾人、必致損害、得一知己、愈於兄弟。

泛交眾人、必致受害、然有時朋友較兄弟更親、

One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

A person with unfaithful friends soon comes to ruin. But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

There are“ friends” who destroy each other, but a real friend sticks closer than a brother.

One with many friends may be harmed, but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.

A man who has friends must himself be friendly, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

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

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

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

A person who has friends may be harmed by them, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

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

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.No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.

Oil and perfume make the heart glad, And a person’s advice is sweet to his friend.

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.

Then Jonathan spoke well of David to his father Saul and said to him,“ May the king not sin against his servant David, since he has not sinned against you, and since his deeds have been very beneficial to you.For he took his life in his hand and struck the Philistine, and the Lord brought about a great victory for all Israel; you saw it and rejoiced. Why then would you sin against innocent blood by putting David to death for no reason?”

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.

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

And immediately Judas went up to Jesus and said,“ Greetings, Rabbi!” and kissed Him.But Jesus said to him,“ Friend, do what you have come for.” Then they came and laid hands on Jesus and arrested Him.

But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the oath of the Lord which was between them, between David and Saul’s son Jonathan.

And Mephibosheth said to the king,“ Let him even take it all, since my lord the king has come safely to his own house.”Now Barzillai the Gileadite had come down from Rogelim; and he went on to the Jordan with the king to escort him over the Jordan.Barzillai was very old: eighty years old; and he had provided the king food while he stayed in Mahanaim, for he was a very great man.So the king said to Barzillai,“ You cross over with me, and I will provide you food in Jerusalem with me.”But Barzillai said to the king,“ How long do I still have to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?I am now eighty years old. Can I distinguish between good and bad? Or can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Or can I still hear the voice of men and women singing? Why then should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?Your servant would merely cross over the Jordan with the king. So why should the king compensate me with this reward?Please let your servant return, so that I may die in my own city near the grave of my father and my mother. However, here is your servant Chimham; let him cross over with my lord the king, and do for him what is good in your sight.”And the king answered,“ Chimham shall cross over with me, and I will do for him what is good in your sight; and whatever you require of me, I will do for you.”All the people crossed over the Jordan and the king crossed too. The king then kissed Barzillai and blessed him, and he returned to his place.

All of these, being men of war who helped in battle formation, came to Hebron with a perfect heart to make David king over all Israel; and all the rest of Israel also were of one mind to make David king.They were there with David for three days, eating and drinking, for their kinsmen had prepared for them.Moreover, those who were near to them, as far as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali, brought food on donkeys, camels, mules, and on oxen, great quantities of flour cakes, fig cakes and bunches of raisins, wine, oil, oxen, and sheep. There was joy indeed in Israel.

Now when David had come to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the sons of Ammon, Machir the son of Ammiel from Lo debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim,brought beds, basins, pottery, wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils, roasted seeds,honey, curds, sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David and the people who were with him, to eat. For they said,“ The people are hungry and exhausted and thirsty in the wilderness.”

Now when David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the spoils to the elders of Judah, to his friends, saying,“ Behold, a gift for you from the spoils of the enemies of the Lord:to those who were in Bethel, to those who were in Ramoth of the Negev, to those who were in Jattir,to those who were in Aroer, to those who were in Siphmoth, to those who were in Eshtemoa,to those who were in Racal, to those who were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, to those who were in the cities of the Kenites,to those who were in Hormah, to those who were in Bor ashan, to those who were in Athach,to those who were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men walked.”