Proverbs 12:26
Good people look out for their friends, but the way the wicked live leads them astray.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
In Context
25If you're anxious, you're weighed down, but an encouraging word will cheer you up.
27Lazy people don't catch their prey, but if you work hard you can become rich.
Cross References
Psalms 18:12Hailstones and burning coals flew out from his brightness, passing through his thick clouds.
Proverbs 14:22Aren't people who plan to do evil wrong? But those who plan to do good have trustworthy love and faithfulness.
Matthew 5:46For if you only love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don't even the tax collectors do that?
James 1:13Nobody should say when they're tempted, “I'm being tempted by God.” For God is not tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone.
2 Peter 2:18Inflated with their own nonsense, they appeal to sensual desires, luring back into immorality those who have only just escaped from those who live in error.
Revelation 12:9The great dragon, the ancient serpent called the devil and Satan who deceives the whole world, was thrown down to the earth, and his angels with him.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 12:26
25 Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad. Here is, 1. The cause and consequence of melancholy. It is heaviness in the heart; it is a load of care, and fear, and sorrow, upon the spirits, depressing them, and disabling them to exert themselves with any vigour on what is to be done or fortitude in what is to borne; it makes them stoop, prostrates and sinks them. Those that are thus oppressed can neither do the duty nor take the comfort of any relation, condition, or… Read the whole commentary →