Proverbs 14:22
They wander astray who work evil. But mercy and truth prepare good things.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.
In Context
23In every work, there shall be abundance. But where there are many words, there is often need.
Cross References
Genesis 24:27saying, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of my lord Abraham, who has not taken away his mercy and truth from my lord, and who has led me on a direct journey to the house of the brother of my lord.”
2 Chronicles 6:8the Lord said to him: ‘In so far as it was your will that you build a house to my name, certainly you have done well in having such a will.
Psalms 61:7For he is my God and my Savior. He is my helper; I will not be expelled.
Proverbs 6:14With a depraved heart he devises evil, and at all times he sows conflict.
Proverbs 12:26He who ignores a loss for the sake of a friend is just. But the way of the impious will deceive them.
Proverbs 19:22An indigent man is merciful. And a pauper is better than a deceitful man.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 14:22
21 He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he. See here how men's character and condition are measured and judged of by their conduct towards their poor neighbours. 1. Those that look upon them with contempt have here assigned them a bad character, and their condition will be accordingly: He that despises his neighbour because he is low in the world, because he is of a mean extraction, rustic education, and makes but a mean figure, that thinks it below him to take… Read the whole commentary →