Proverbs 10:12

When we hate others, it causes quarrels, but if we love others, we forgive them for the wrong things that they do.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

In Context

11What righteous people say [MTY] is like a fountain that ◄gives life/enables people to live many years► [MET], but what wicked people say [MTY] hides the fact that they intend to act violently.

13Those who have good sense say [MTY] what is wise, but people who do not have good sense must be punished.

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Cross References

Proverbs 16:27Worthless people plan ways to cause trouble for others, and even what they say injures people like a hot fire does [SIM].

Proverbs 28:25Greedy people cause trouble/strife; those who trust in Yahweh will prosper [IDM].

1 Corinthians 13:4Those who [PRS] truly love others act patiently and kindly toward them. Those who [PRS] truly love others are not jealous of them, they do not boast about what they themselves have done, and are not proud.

James 5:20the one who persuaded him should realize that because he has enabled the person who was sinning to stop doing what is wrong, God will save that person from ◄ spiritual death/being separated from him forever►, and will forgive his many 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 →

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