Proverbs 12:26
He who ignores a loss for the sake of a friend is just. But the way of the impious will deceive them.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
In Context
25Grief in the heart of a man humbles him. And with a good word he shall be made glad.
27The dishonest will not discover gain. But the substance of a man will be like precious gold.
Cross References
Psalms 18:12For, indeed, your servant keeps them, and in keeping them, there are many rewards.
Proverbs 14:22They wander astray who work evil. But mercy and truth prepare good things.
Matthew 5:46For if you love those who love you, what reward will you have? Do not even tax collectors behave this way?
James 1:13No one should say, when he is tempted, that he was tempted by God. For God does not entice toward evils, and he himself tempts no one.
2 Peter 2:18For, speaking with the arrogance of vanity, they lure, by the desires of fleshly pleasures, those who are fleeing to some extent, who are being turned from error,
Revelation 12:9And he was thrown out, that great dragon, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, who seduces the whole world. And he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were cast down 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 →