² Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeks to kill you: now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, and live in a secret place, and hide yourself:

¹ It happened, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

² 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 He said to him, "Far from it; you shall not die: behold, my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it to me; and why should my father hide this thing from me? It is not so."

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

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

¹⁷ "I command these things to you, that you may love one another.

¹⁸ If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

¹⁹ If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

²⁴ but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both 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 barracks and told Paul.

¹² unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

¹³ Don't be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

¹⁴ We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn't love his brother remains in death.