Proverbs 27:17

People shape and strengthen one another through close, honest interaction. It commends the mutual benefit of wise, sharpening friendships.

Cross-references · 17

• Heb 10:24And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
• Prov 27:9Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.
• Job 4:3–4Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
• 1 Sam 23:16And Jonathan Saul’s son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.
• 2 Tim 2:3Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
• Isa 35:3–4Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
• 1 Pet 4:12–13Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
• 2 Sam 10:11–12And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I will come and help thee.
• Jas 1:2My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
• 2 Tim 1:8Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
• 2 Tim 2:9–13Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.
• 1 Th 3:3That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.
• 2 Tim 1:12For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
• 1 Sam 11:9–10And they said unto the messengers that came, Thus shall ye say unto the men of Jabeshgilead, To morrow, by that time the sun be hot, ye shall have help. And the messengers came and shewed it to the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.
• Josh 1:18Whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy commandment, and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him, he shall be put to death: only be strong and of a good courage.
• 1 Sam 13:20–21But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.
• Josh 2:24And they said unto Joshua, Truly the LORD hath delivered into our hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the country do faint because of us.

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