Proverbs 12:2
A good man is acceptable vnto the Lorde: but the wicked imaginer wyll he condempne.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
In Context
1Who so loueth correction loueth knowledge: but he that hateth to be reproued is a foole.
3A man can not endure in vngodlinesse: but the roote of the ryghteous shall not be moued.
Cross References
Proverbs 1:31Therfore shall they eate of the fruite of their owne way, and be fylled with their owne inuentions.
Proverbs 8:35For whoso findeth me, findeth life, and shall obtaine fauour of the Lorde.
Ecclesiastes 8:8Neither is there any man that hath power ouer the spirite to kepe styll the spirite, nor to haue any power in the tyme of death, nor that can make an ende of the battayle, neither may vngodlynesse deliuer them that meddle withall.
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 →