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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Cross references
- Proverbs 17:17 A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.
- John 15:13–15 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. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
- Proverbs 27:9 Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.