Proverbs 14:22
Those who plan to do things that are evil/wrong are walking on the wrong road; people faithfully love, respect and are loyal to those who plan to do what is good.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 24:27He said, “I thank you, Yahweh God, whom my master Abraham worships. You have continued to be kind and faithful to my master. You led me on this journey straight/directly to the house of my master’s relatives!”
2 Chronicles 6:8But Yahweh said to him, ‘You have wanted to build a temple for me, and what you wanted to do was good.
Psalms 61:7Allow us to rule forever while you observe us; watch over us while you faithfully love us and do for us what you promised.
Proverbs 6:14They plan to do evil things. They constantly cause strife/trouble.
Proverbs 12:26Godly/Righteous people try to give good advice to their friends (OR, try to make friends with others), but the manner in which wicked people live misleads their friends.
Proverbs 19:22People want others to be loyal to them; it is better to be poor than to tell a lie to a judge in court in order to get money.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 14:22
21 He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he. See here how men's character and condition are measured and judged of by their conduct towards their poor neighbours. 1. Those that look upon them with contempt have here assigned them a bad character, and their condition will be accordingly: He that despises his neighbour because he is low in the world, because he is of a mean extraction, rustic education, and makes but a mean figure, that thinks it below him to take… Read the whole commentary →