Proverbs 16:6
By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of LORD men depart from evil.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.
In Context
5Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to LORD. Hand in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
7When a man's ways please LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
Cross References
Genesis 20:11And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.
Leviticus 25:17And ye shall not wrong each other, but thou shall fear thy God, for I am LORD your God.
Nehemiah 5:9Also I said, The thing that ye do is not good. Ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?
Job 1:1There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was perfect and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.
Psalms 85:10Mercy and truth are met together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Proverbs 8:13The fear of LORD is to hate evil. Pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 16:6
5 Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord : though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished. Note, 1. The pride of sinners sets God against them. He that, being high in estate is proud in heart, whose spirit is elevated with his condition, so that he becomes insolent in his conduct towards God and man, let him know that though he admires himself, and others caress him, yet he is an abomination to the Lord. The great God despises him; the holy God detest him. 2. The power of sinners… Read the whole commentary →