New Revised Standard Version
A friend loves at all times, and kinsfolk are born to share adversity.

Contemporary English Version
A friend is there to help, in any situation, and relatives are born to share our troubles.

New American Bible
A friend is a friend at all times, and a brother is born for the time of adversity.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that is a friend loveth at all times: and a brother is proved in distress.

He that is a friend loveth at all times: and a brother is proved in distress.

Proverbs 18:24 A man amiable in society, shall be more friendly than a brother.

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Proverbs 19:7 The brethren of the poor man hate him: moreover also his friends have departed far from him. He that followeth after words only, shall have nothing.

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Ruth 1:16 She answered: Be not against me, to desire that I should leave thee and depart: for whithersoever thou shalt go, I will go: and where thou shalt dwell, I also will dwell. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.

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1 Samuel 18:3 And David and Jonathan made a covenant, for he loved him as his own soul.

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1 Samuel 19:2 And Jonathan told David, saying: Saul, my father, seeketh to kill thee: wherefore look to thyself, I beseech thee, in the morning and thou shalt abide in a secret place, and shalt be hid.

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1 Samuel 20:17 And Jonathan swore again to David, because he loved him: for he loved him as his own soul.

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1 Samuel 23:16 And Jonathan, the son of Saul, arose, and went to David, into the wood, and strengthened his hands in God: and he said to him:

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2 Samuel 1:26 I grieve for thee, my brother Jonathan: exceeding beautiful, and amiable to me above the love of women. As the mother loveth her only son, so did I love thee.

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2 Samuel 9:1 And David said: Is there any one, think you, left of the house of Saul, that I may shew kindness to him for Jonathan's sake?

Esther 4:14 For if thou wilt now hold thy peace, the Jews shall be delivered by some other occasion: and thou, and thy father's house shall perish. And who knoweth whether thou art not therefore come to the kingdom, that thou mightest be ready in such a time as this?

John 15:13,14 Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends. . . .

Hebrews 2:11 For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one. For which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying: