A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. A true friend loves at all times; but it is in adversity especially that he becomes as a brother born to you, or a brother by blood just born for the emergency. It is when put in the fire that the gold is proved. There ought to be no intervals of forgetfulness or alienation in the true friend. Proverbs 18:24 goes still further than this verse: it tells of "a friend that sticketh closer than a brother."