1 Samuel 19:2
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2 So Jonathan told David, saying, “My father Saul seeks to kill you. Therefore please be on your guard until morning, and stay in a secret place and hide.
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Proverbs 17:17
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17 (A)A friend loves at all times,
And a brother is born for adversity.
Acts 9:24
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24 (A)But their plot became known to Saul. And they watched the gates day and night, to kill him.
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1 John 3:12-14
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12 not as (A)Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother’s righteous.
13 Do not marvel, my brethren, if (B)the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love [a]his brother abides in death.
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- 1 John 3:14 NU omits his brother
Acts 23:16
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16 So when Paul’s sister’s son heard of their ambush, he went and entered the barracks and told Paul.
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Psalm 16:3
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3 As for the saints who are on the earth,
“They are the excellent ones, in (A)whom is all my delight.”
1 Samuel 20:2
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2 So Jonathan said to him, “By no means! You shall not die! Indeed, my father will do nothing either great or small without first telling me. And why should my father hide this thing from me? It is not so!”
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1 Samuel 18:1-3
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Saul Resents David
18 Now when he had finished speaking to Saul, (A)the [a]soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, (B)and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. 2 Saul took him that day, (C)and would not let him go home to his father’s house anymore. 3 Then Jonathan and David made a (D)covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
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- 1 Samuel 18:1 life of Jonathan was bound up with the life of
John 15:17-19
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17 These things I command you, that you love one another.
The World’s Hatred
18 (A)“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. 19 (B)If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet (C)because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
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