Proverbs 27:10

Do not forsake your friend or your father’s friend, and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity; better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.

Cross References (16)

  • Proverbs 18:24 (9)

    A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.

  • Proverbs 17:17 (6)

    A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

  • 1 Kings 12:6–8 (5)

    Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise m

  • Luke 10:30–37 (5)

    Jesus took up this question and said, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho when he fell into the hands of rob

  • Obadiah 1:12–14 (4)

    But you should not gloat in that day, your brother’s day of misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day

  • Proverbs 19:7 (4)

    All the brothers of a poor man hate him—how much more do his friends avoid him! He may pursue them with pleading, but th

  • 2 Samuel 19:24 (3)

    Then Mephibosheth, Saul’s grandson, went down to meet the king. He had not cared for his feet or trimmed his mustache or

  • Job 6:21–23 (3)

    For now you are of no help; you see terror, and you are afraid.

  • 2 Samuel 21:7 (2)

    Now the king spared Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the oath before the LORD between David and

  • 2 Chronicles 10:6–8 (2)

    Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise m

  • Isaiah 41:8–10 (1)

    “But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend—

  • 2 Chronicles 24:22 (1)

    Thus King Joash failed to remember the kindness that Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had extended to him. Instead, Joash kil

  • 2 Samuel 19:28 (1)

    For all the house of my grandfather deserves death from my lord the king, yet you have set your servant among those who

  • Acts 23:12 (1)

    When daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had ki

  • Acts 23:23–35 (1)

    Then he called two of his centurions and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen

  • Jeremiah 2:5 (1)

    This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me? They followed wort