Genesis 21:27

A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.

A man’s gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.

Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man’s covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.

Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

And hath taken of the king’s seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land:

Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.

But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.

A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.