Proverbs 12:2
A good [man] obtaineth favour of Jehovah; but a man of mischievous devices will he condemn.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
In Context
1Whoso loveth discipline loveth knowledge, but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
3A man shall not be established by wickedness; but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
Cross References
Psalms 9:15The nations are sunk down in the pit [that] they made; in the net that they hid is their own foot taken.
Proverbs 1:31therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their way, and be filled with their own devices.
Proverbs 8:35For whoso findeth me findeth life, and obtaineth favour of Jehovah;
Ecclesiastes 8:8There is no man who hath control over the spirit to retain the spirit; and no one hath control over the day of death; and there is no discharge in that war, neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
Acts 11:24for he was a good man and full of [the] Holy Spirit and of faith; and a large crowd [of people] were added to the Lord.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 12:2
Advantages of the Righteous. 1 Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish. We are here taught to try whether we have grace or no by enquiring how we stand affected to the means of grace. 1. Those that have grace and love it will delight in all the instructions that are given them by way of counsel; admonition, or reproof, by the word or providence of God; they will value a good education, and think it not a hardship, but a happiness, to be under a strict and prudent… Read the whole commentary →