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Proverbs 18:24
One with many friends may be harmed, but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.
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John 15:13-14
No one has greater love than this: to lay down his life for his friends.You are my friends if you do what I command you.
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1 Samuel 18 3
Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as much as himself.
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1 Samuel 20 17
Jonathan once again swore to David in his love for him, because he loved him as he loved himself.
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2 Samuel 1 26
I grieve for you, Jonathan, my brother. You were such a friend to me. Your love for me was more wondrous than the love of women.
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Hebrews 2:11
For the one who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one Father. That is why Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters,
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Ruth 1:16
But Ruth replied: Don’t plead with me to abandon you or to return and not follow you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.
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Proverbs 19:7
All the brothers of a poor person hate him; how much more do his friends keep their distance from him! He may pursue them with words, but they are not there.
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2 Samuel 9 1-2 Samuel 9 13
David asked,“ Is there anyone remaining from the family of Saul I can show kindness to for Jonathan’s sake?”There was a servant of Saul’s family named Ziba. They summoned him to David, and the king said to him,“ Are you Ziba?”“ I am your servant,” he replied.So the king asked,“ Is there anyone left of Saul’s family that I can show the kindness of God to?” Ziba said to the king,“ There is still Jonathan’s son who was injured in both feet.”The king asked him,“ Where is he?” Ziba answered the king,“ You’ll find him in Lo-debar at the house of Machir son of Ammiel.”So King David had him brought from the house of Machir son of Ammiel in Lo-debar.Mephibosheth son of Jonathan son of Saul came to David, fell facedown, and paid homage. David said,“ Mephibosheth!”“ I am your servant,” he replied.“ Don’t be afraid,” David said to him,“ since I intend to show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan. I will restore to you all your grandfather Saul’s fields, and you will always eat meals at my table.”Mephibosheth paid homage and said,“ What is your servant that you take an interest in a dead dog like me?”Then the king summoned Saul’s attendant Ziba and said to him,“ I have given to your master’s grandson all that belonged to Saul and his family.You, your sons, and your servants are to work the ground for him, and you are to bring in the crops so your master’s grandson will have food to eat. But Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, is always to eat at my table.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.Ziba said to the king,“ Your servant will do all my lord the king commands.” So Mephibosheth ate at David’s table just like one of the king’s sons.Mephibosheth had a young son whose name was Mica. All those living in Ziba’s house were Mephibosheth’s servants.However, Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem because he always ate at the king’s table. His feet had been injured.
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Esther 4:14
If you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will come to the Jewish people from another place, but you and your father’s family will be destroyed. Who knows, perhaps you have come to your royal position for such a time as this.”
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1 Samuel 19 2
so he told him,“ My father, Saul, intends to kill you. Be on your guard in the morning and hide in a secret place and stay there.
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1 Samuel 23 16
Then Saul’s son Jonathan came to David in Horesh and encouraged him in his faith in God,
