Proverbs 10:12
Hatred awakens contentions, || And love covers over all transgressions.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
In Context
11A fountain of life [is] the mouth of the righteous, || And the mouth of the wicked covers violence.
Cross References
Proverbs 16:27A worthless man is preparing evil, || And on his lips [is] as a burning fire.
Proverbs 28:25Whoever is proud in soul stirs up contention, || And whoever is trusting on YHWH is made fat.
1 Corinthians 13:4Love is long-suffering, it is kind, love does not envy, love does not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,
James 5:20let him know that he who turned back a sinner from the straying of his way will save a soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 10:12
11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. See here, 1. How industrious a good man is, by communicating his goodness, to do good with it: His mouth, the outlet of his mind, is a well of life; it is a constant spring, whence issues good discourse for the edification of others, like streams that water the ground and make it fruitful, and for their consolation, like streams that quench the thirst of the weary traveller. It is like a well of life, that is pure and… Read the whole commentary →