Cross references

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.

Proverbs 27:10 BSB

Proverbs 27:10 has 16 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 6 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Proverbs 18:24 (9 votes) and Proverbs 17:17 (6 votes). 10 other verses point back to it. It links with 12 other books, from Genesis 13 to Acts 23.

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Which verses does Proverbs 27:10 point to?

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

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

  3. Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked. They replied, “If you will be a servant to these people and serve them this day, and if you will respond by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.” …

  4. Jesus took up this question and said, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho when he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down the same road, but when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. …

  5. All the brothers of a poor man hate him—how much more do his friends avoid him! He may pursue them with pleading, but they are nowhere to be found.

  6. But you should not gloat in that day, your brother’s day of misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast proudly in the day of their distress. You should not enter the gate of My people in the day of their disaster, nor gloat over their affliction in the day of their disaster, nor loot their wealth in the day of their disaster. …

  7. Then Mephibosheth, Saul’s grandson, went down to meet the king. He had not cared for his feet or trimmed his mustache or washed his clothes from the day the king had left until the day he returned safely.

  8. For now you are of no help; you see terror, and you are afraid. Have I ever said, ‘Give me something; offer me a bribe from your wealth; …

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

  10. Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked. They replied, “If you will be kind to these people and please them by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.” …

Which verses point to Proverbs 27:10?

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