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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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Proverbs 17:17
A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.
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1 Kings 12 6-1 Kings 12 8
King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying,“ What counsel do you give me to answer these people?”They replied,“ If you will be a servant to this people today, and will serve them, and answer them with good words, then they will be your servants forever.”But he abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.
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2 Samuel 19 24
Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither groomed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace.
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Obadiah 1:12-14
But don’t look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don’t rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don’t speak proudly in the day of distress.Don’t enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don’t look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity.Don’t stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. Don’t deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress.
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Luke 10:30-37
Jesus answered,“ A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead.By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side.But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion,came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, gave them to the host, and said to him,‘ Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.’Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?”He said,“ He who showed mercy on him.” Then Jesus said to him,“ Go and do likewise.”
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2 Samuel 19 28
For all my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more to the king?”
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Acts 23:12
When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.
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2 Samuel 21 7
But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Yahweh’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
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2 Chronicles 24 22
Thus Joash the king didn’t remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said,“ May Yahweh look at it, and repay it.”
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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 Chronicles 10 6-2 Chronicles 10 8
King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying,“ What counsel do you give me about how to answer these people?”They spoke to him, saying,“ If you are kind to these people, please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.”But he abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.
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Jeremiah 2:5
Yahweh says,“ What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?
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Isaiah 41:8-10
“ But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham my friend,You whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called from its corners, and said to you,‘ You are my servant, I have chosen you and have not cast you away.’Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
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Job 6:21-23
For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.Did I say,‘ Give to me?’ or,‘ Offer a present for me from your substance?’or,‘ Deliver me from the adversary’s hand?’ or,‘ Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?’
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Acts 23:23-35
He called to himself two of the centurions, and said,“ Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen, and two hundred men armed with spears, at the third hour of the night.”He asked them to provide animals, that they might set Paul on one, and bring him safely to Felix the governor.He wrote a letter like this:“ Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor Felix: Greetings.“ This man was seized by the Jews, and was about to be killed by them, when I came with the soldiers and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman.Desiring to know the cause why they accused him, I brought him down to their council.I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but not to be charged with anything worthy of death or of imprisonment.When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring their accusations against him before you. Farewell.”So the soldiers, carrying out their orders, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.But on the next day they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the barracks.When they came to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him.When the governor had read it, he asked what province he was from. When he understood that he was from Cilicia, he said,“ I will hear you fully when your accusers also arrive.” He commanded that he be kept in Herod’s palace.