Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirreth up strifes: and charity covereth all sins.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
In Context
11The mouth of the just is a vein of life: and the mouth of the wicked covereth iniquity.
13In the lips of the wise is wisdom found: and a rod on the back of him that wanteth sense.
Cross References
Proverbs 16:27The wicked man diggeth evil, and in his lips is a burning fire.
Proverbs 28:25He that boasteth and puffeth up himself, stirreth up quarrels: but he that trusteth in the Lord, shall be healed.
1 Corinthians 13:4Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth not, dealeth not perversely, is not puffed up,
James 5:20He must know that he who causeth a sinner to be converted from the error of his way shall save his soul from death and shall cover a multitude of sins. THE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. PETER THE APOSTLE The first Epistle of St. Peter, though brief, contains much doctrine concerning Faith, Hope, and Charity, with divers instructions to all persons of what state or condition soever. The Apostle commands submission to rulers and superiors and exhorts all to the practice of a virtuous life in imitation, of Christ. This Epistle is written with such apostolical dignity as to manifest the supreme authority with which its writer, the Prince of the Apostles, had been vested by his Lord and Master, Jesus Christ. He wrote it at Rome, which figuratively he calls Babylon, about fifteen years after our Lord's Ascension.
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 →