Proverbs 13:6
Righteousness guards the man of integrity, but wickedness undermines the sinner.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
In Context
5The righteous hate falsehood, but the wicked bring shame and disgrace.
7One pretends to be rich, but has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.
Cross References
1 Kings 13:34And this was the sin of the house of Jeroboam that led to its extermination and destruction from the face of the earth.
Psalms 15:2He who walks with integrity and practices righteousness, who speaks the truth from his heart,
Psalms 26:1Vindicate me, O LORD! For I have walked with integrity; I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.
Proverbs 5:22The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
Proverbs 11:5The righteousness of the blameless directs their path, but the wicked fall by their own wickedness.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 13:6
The Righteous Exclusively Happy. 5 A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame. Note, 1. Where grace reigns sin is loathsome. It is the undoubted character of every righteous man that he hates lying (that is, all sin, for every sin is a lie, and particularly all fraud and falsehood in commerce and conversation), not only that he will not tell a lie, but he abhors lying, from a rooted reigning principle of love to truth and justice, and conformity to God. 2. Where sin reigns the… Read the whole commentary →