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Keep away from your enemies, and be on guard with your friends.
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Faithful friends are a sturdy shelter: whoever finds one has found a treasure.
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Faithful friends are beyond price; no amount can balance their worth.
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Faithful friends are life-saving medicine; and those who fear the Lord will find them.
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Those who fear the Lord direct their friendship aright, for as they are, so are their neighbors also.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.