Proverbs 17:17
Modern English Version
17 A friend loves at all times,
and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 17:17
21st Century King James Version
17 A friend is loving at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
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Proverbs 18:19
Modern English Version
19 A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city,
and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
Proverbs 18:19
21st Century King James Version
19 An offended brother is harder to be won back than a stronghold city, and his contentions are like the bars of a castle.
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Proverbs 18:24
Modern English Version
24 A man who has friends must show himself friendly,
and there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Proverbs 18:24
21st Century King James Version
24 A man that hath friends must show himself friendly, and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
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Proverbs 19:8
Modern English Version
8 He who gets wisdom loves his own soul;
he who keeps understanding will find good.
Proverbs 19:8
21st Century King James Version
8 He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul; he that keepeth understanding shall find good.
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Proverbs 20:28
Modern English Version
28 Mercy and truth preserve the king,
and his throne is upheld by mercy.
Proverbs 20:28
21st Century King James Version
28 Mercy and truth preserve the king, and his throne is upheld by mercy.
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Proverbs 21:17
Modern English Version
17 He who loves pleasure will be a poor man;
he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.
Proverbs 21:17
21st Century King James Version
17 He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man; he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
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Proverbs 21:21
Modern English Version
21 He who follows after righteousness and mercy
finds life, righteousness, and honor.
Proverbs 21:21
21st Century King James Version
21 He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness and honor.
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Proverbs 27:5-6
Modern English Version
5 Open rebuke is better
than secret love.
6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend,
but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Proverbs 27:5-6
21st Century King James Version
5 Open rebuke is better than secret love.
6 Faithful are the wounds from a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
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Proverbs 27:9-10
Modern English Version
9 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart,
so does the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.
10 Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend,
nor go into your brother’s house in the day of your calamity;
for better is a neighbor who is near than a brother far off.
Proverbs 27:9-10
21st Century King James Version
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.
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Proverbs 29:3
Modern English Version
3 Whoever loves wisdom rejoices his father,
but he who keeps company with harlots spends his substance.
Proverbs 29:3
21st Century King James Version
3 Whoso loveth wisdom maketh his father rejoice, but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.
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