¹⁷ A friend is loving at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

¹⁹ An offended brother is harder to be won back than a stronghold city, and his contentions are like the bars of a castle.

²⁴ A man that hath friends must show himself friendly, and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

⁸ He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul; he that keepeth understanding shall find good.

²⁸ Mercy and truth preserve the king, and his throne is upheld by mercy.

¹⁷ He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man; he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

²¹ He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness and honor.

⁵ Open rebuke is better than secret love.

⁶ Faithful are the wounds from a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

⁹ Ointment and perfume make the heart rejoice; so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by counsel from the heart.

¹⁰ Thine own friend and thy father’s friend, forsake not; neither go to thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity; for better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.

³ Whoso loveth wisdom maketh his father rejoice, but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.