Proverbs 12:6
The words of sinners are destruction for the upright; but the mouth of upright men is their salvation.
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In Context
5The purposes of upright men are right, but the designs of evil-doers are deceit.
7Evil-doers are overturned and never seen again, but the house of upright men will keep its place.
Cross References
2 Samuel 17:1Then Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me take out twelve thousand men and this very night I will go after David:
Esther 7:4For we are given up, I and my people, to destruction and death and to be cut off. If we had been taken as men-servants and women-servants for a price, I would have said nothing, for our trouble is little in comparison with the king's loss.
Proverbs 14:3In the mouth of the foolish man is a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will keep them safe.
Jeremiah 5:26For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.
Acts 23:12And when it was day, the Jews came together and put themselves under an oath that they would take no food or drink till they had put Paul to death.
Acts 25:3Requesting Festus to give effect to their design against him, and send him to Jerusalem, when they would be waiting to put him to death on the way.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 12:6
5 The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit. Note, 1. The word of God is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart, and judges them. We mistake if we imagine that thoughts are free. No, they are under the divine cognizance, and therefore under the divine command. 2. We ought to be observers of the thoughts and intents of our own hearts, and to judge of ourselves by them; for they are the first-born of the soul, that have most of its image undisguised. Right… Read the whole commentary →