Proverbs 17:17

²⁴A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

¹³Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.

¹⁷Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had to him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

³Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

⁷All the relatives of the poor shun him; how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.

¹¹For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

¹⁶Ruth 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.

²⁶I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, surpassing the love of women.

¹⁴For 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?”

¹⁶Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.