Proverbs 12:2
The good man obtains favor from the LORD, but the LORD condemns a man who devises evil.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
In Context
1Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.
3A man cannot be established through wickedness, but the righteous cannot be uprooted.
Cross References
Psalms 9:15The nations have fallen into a pit of their making; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.
Proverbs 1:31So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Proverbs 8:35For whoever finds me finds life and obtains the favor of the LORD.
Ecclesiastes 8:8As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
Acts 11:24Barnabas was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith, and a great number of people were brought 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 →