Proverbs 12:26
A righteous man is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked causes them to err.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
In Context
25Heaviness in the heart of a man makes it droop, but a good word makes it glad.
Cross References
Psalms 18:12At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.
Proverbs 14:22Do they not err who devise evil? But mercy and truth [are to] those who devise good.
Matthew 5:46For if ye love those who love you, what reward have ye? Do not even the tax collectors the same?
James 1:13Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted by God, for God is without temptation of evils, and he himself tempts no man.
2 Peter 2:18For, uttering swollen things of vanity, they entice (to sensuality by lusts of flesh) those who actually escaped from those who live in error,
Revelation 12:9And the great dragon was cast out, the ancient serpent, called the Devil and Satan, he who leads the whole world astray. He was cast out to the earth, and his agents were cast out with him.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 12:26
25 Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad. Here is, 1. The cause and consequence of melancholy. It is heaviness in the heart; it is a load of care, and fear, and sorrow, upon the spirits, depressing them, and disabling them to exert themselves with any vigour on what is to be done or fortitude in what is to borne; it makes them stoop, prostrates and sinks them. Those that are thus oppressed can neither do the duty nor take the comfort of any relation, condition, or… Read the whole commentary →