² And Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to slay thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself in the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself:

¹ And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

² And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house.

³ Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

² And he said unto him, Far from it; thou shalt not die: behold, my father doeth nothing either great or small, but that he discloseth it unto me; and why should my father hide this thing from me? it is not so.

³ As for the saints that are in the earth, They are the excellent in whom is all my delight.

¹⁷ A friend loveth at all times; And a brother is born for adversity.

¹⁷ These things I command you, that ye may love one another.

¹⁸ If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before `it hated' you.

¹⁹ If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

²⁴ but their plot became known to Saul. And they watched the gates also day and night that they might kill him:

¹⁶ But Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, and he came and entered into the castle and told Paul.

¹² not as Cain was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

¹³ Marvel not, brethren, if the world hateth you.

¹⁴ We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death.