Proverbs 12:20
Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil, but joy is to the counselors of peace.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
In Context
19The lips of truth shall be established forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
21There shall no mischief happen to a righteous man, but the wicked shall be filled with evil.
Cross References
Psalms 119:118Thou have set at nothing all those who err from thy statutes, for their deceit is falsehood.
Proverbs 26:24He who hates masquerades with his lips, but he lays up deceit within him.
Jeremiah 17:16As for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd after thee, nor have I desired the woeful day. Thou know. That which came out of my lips was before thy face.
Zechariah 6:13even he shall build the temple of LORD. And he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne. And he shall be a priest upon his throne, and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.
Mark 7:21For from inside the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts,
Romans 1:29having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity;
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 12:20
19 The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment. Be it observed, to the honour of truth, that sacred thing, 1. That, if truth be spoken, it will hold good, and, whoever may be disobliged by it and angry at it, yet it will keep its ground. Great is the truth and will prevail. What is true will be always true; we may abide by it, and need not fear being disproved and put to shame. 2. That, if truth be denied, yet in time it will transpire. A lying tongue, that puts false… Read the whole commentary →