Ruth 1:16

Christian Standard Bible

¹⁶But 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 18:24

Christian Standard Bible

²⁴One with many friends may be harmed,^[a]
but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.^(A)

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Footnotes

18:24 Some LXX mss, Syr, Tg, Vg read friends must be friendly

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Proverbs 27:10

Christian Standard Bible

¹⁰Don’t abandon your friend or your father’s friend,^(A)
and don’t go to your brother’s house
in your time of calamity;
better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.^(B)

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