Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirreth up strifes; but love covereth all transgressions.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
In Context
11The mouth of a righteous [man] is a fountain of life; but the mouth of the wicked covereth violence.
Cross References
Proverbs 16:27A man of Belial diggeth up evil, and on his lips there is as a scorching fire.
Proverbs 28:25He that is puffed up in soul exciteth contention; but he that relieth upon Jehovah shall be made fat.
1 Corinthians 13:4Love has long patience, is kind; love is not emulous [of others]; love is not insolent and rash, is not puffed up,
James 5:20let him know that he that brings back a sinner from [the] error of his way shall save a soul from death and shall cover a multitude of sins.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 10:12
11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. See here, 1. How industrious a good man is, by communicating his goodness, to do good with it: His mouth, the outlet of his mind, is a well of life; it is a constant spring, whence issues good discourse for the edification of others, like streams that water the ground and make it fruitful, and for their consolation, like streams that quench the thirst of the weary traveller. It is like a well of life, that is pure and… Read the whole commentary →