Ruth 1:14

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

Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.

But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.

And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place.

For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.

Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.

But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day.