Proverbs 13:6
Righteousness keeps him who is perfect in the way, || And wickedness overthrows a sin offering.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
In Context
5The righteous hates a false word, || And the wicked causes abhorrence, and is confounded.
Cross References
1 Kings 13:34And in this thing is the sin of the house of Jeroboam, even to cut [it] off, and to destroy [it] from off the face of the ground.
Psalms 15:2He who is walking uprightly, || And working righteousness, || And speaking truth in his heart.
Psalms 26:1BY DAVID. Judge me, O YHWH, for I have walked in my integrity, || And I have trusted in YHWH, || I do not slide.
Proverbs 5:22His own iniquities capture the wicked, || And he is holden with the ropes of his sin.
Proverbs 11:5The righteousness of the perfect makes his way right, || And by his wickedness the wicked fall.
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 →