Old Testament

New Testament

Sirach 6:6-9 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

6. Allow many to be at peace with you, but allow one out of a thousand to be your counselor.

7. If you would obtain a friend, test him before you accept him, and do not trust him readily.

8. For there is a friend according to his own time, but he will not remain in the day of tribulation.

9. And there is a friend who can be turned to animosity. And there is a friend who will reveal hatred and ridicule and insults.

Read complete chapter Sirach 6