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Summary
- 1717 is not a number in the Bible, but three verses sit at 17:17 and repay the visit.
- Proverbs 17:17 — “A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity” — offers two kinds of faithfulness rather than a ranking.
- John 17:17 — “Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth” — comes from the prayer Jesus prays the night before his death, asking that his followers be kept in the world.
- Genesis 17:17 has Abraham face down in worship and laughing at once. Isaac’s name means “he laughs,” so the laughter is built into the family.
- Chapter divisions came around 1227 and verse numbers in 1551 and 1555. A reference is the Bible’s index, not its content.
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Sources: Scripture quotations from the NIV via BibleGateway (Proverbs 17:17; John 17:15, 17; Genesis 17:17; 18:12-15; 21:6; Leviticus 19:26; Philippians 4:6). The attribution of chapter divisions to Stephen Langton (c. 1227) and verse numbers to Robert Estienne (1551, 1555) follows standard histories of the Bible as a printed book.
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