Proverbs 13:6
Righteousness guards him who is upright in the way, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
In Context
5A righteous man hates lying, but a wicked man is loathsome, and comes to shame.
Cross References
1 Kings 13:34And this thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.
Psalms 15:2He who walks uprightly, and works righteousness, and speaks truth in his heart,
Psalms 26:1Judge me, O LORD, for I have walked in my integrity. I have also trusted in LORD without wavering.
Proverbs 5:22His own iniquities shall take a wicked man, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.
Proverbs 11:5The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way, but the wicked man shall fall by his own wickedness.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 13:6
The Righteous Exclusively Happy. 5 A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame. Note, 1. Where grace reigns sin is loathsome. It is the undoubted character of every righteous man that he hates lying (that is, all sin, for every sin is a lie, and particularly all fraud and falsehood in commerce and conversation), not only that he will not tell a lie, but he abhors lying, from a rooted reigning principle of love to truth and justice, and conformity to God. 2. Where sin reigns the… Read the whole commentary →