Proverbs 12:2
The Lord blesses the good, but he condemns anyone with evil schemes.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
In Context
1If you love knowledge, you will love discipline. Anyone who hates being corrected is stupid!
3Wickedness doesn't provide security, but those who live right are deeply rooted and cannot be moved.
Cross References
Psalms 9:15The nations have fallen into their own pit they dug; their feet are trapped by their own net they set.
Proverbs 1:31So they'll have to eat the fruit of their own choices, bloated by their own devious schemes.
Proverbs 8:35For those who find me, find life, and are accepted by the Lord.
Ecclesiastes 8:8No one can hold onto the breath of life; no one can prevent the day when they die. There's no way of escaping that battle, and the wicked won't be saved by their wickedness!
Acts 11:24Barnabas was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit, who put his whole trust in God. Many 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 →