Proverbs 13:5
Good people hate lies, but the wicked cause a stink and bring disgrace.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
In Context
4Lazy people want a lot, but get nothing; if you work hard you'll be well rewarded.
6Goodness protects those who live right, but sin overcomes the wicked.
Cross References
Psalms 119:163I hate and detest lies, but I love your teachings.
Proverbs 6:17arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that murder the innocent,
Proverbs 30:8Keep me from being false, help me not to tell lies. Don't make me poor or rich; just provide me with the food I need.
Ezekiel 20:43That's where you will remember your bad ways and everything you've done to make yourselves unclean, and you will hate yourselves for the evil things you did.
Daniel 12:2Millions sleeping in the ground in death will awake, some to eternal life, and some to eternal shame and disgrace.
Ephesians 4:25So reject lies, and tell the truth to each other—for we belong to each other.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 13:5
4 The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat. Here is, 1. The misery and shame of the slothful. See how foolish and absurd they are; they desire the gains which the diligent get, but they hate the pains which the diligent take; they covet every thing that is to be coveted, but will do nothing that is to be done; and therefore it follows, They have nothing; for he that will not labour let him hunger, and let him not eat, 2 Thess. iii. 10 . The desire of the… Read the whole commentary →