A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
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A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
He that maketh many friends [doeth it] to his own destruction; But there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
There are friends who may be a man's destruction, but there is a lover who keeps nearer than a brother.
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Matthew Henry · Verse 24
Christ Jesus never will forsake those who trust in and love him. May we be such friends to others, for our Master's sake. Having loved his own, which were in the world, he loved them unto the end; and we are his friends if we do whatever he commands us, Joh 15:14.
Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.
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