Proverbs 12:2
Yahweh gives favor to a good man, 1 but he condemns a man who makes evil plans. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
In Context
1Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, 1 but the one who hates correction is stupid. 1
3A person cannot be established by wickedness, 1 but righteous people cannot be uprooted. 1
Cross References
Psalms 9:15The nations have sunk down into the pit that they made; 1 their feet are caught in the net that they hid. 1
Proverbs 1:31They will eat the fruit of their ways, 1 and with the fruit of their schemes they will be filled. 1
Proverbs 8:35For whoever finds me, finds life, 1 and he will find the favor of Yahweh. 1
Ecclesiastes 8:8No one is ruler over his breath so as to stop the breath, + 8:8 Some versions have No one is ruler over the wind so as to stop the wind . 2 and no one has power over the day of his death. 1 No one is discharged from the army during a battle, 2 and wickedness will not rescue those who are its slaves.
Acts 11:24For he was a good man and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and many people were added to the Lord.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 12:2
Advantages of the Righteous. 1 Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish. We are here taught to try whether we have grace or no by enquiring how we stand affected to the means of grace. 1. Those that have grace and love it will delight in all the instructions that are given them by way of counsel; admonition, or reproof, by the word or providence of God; they will value a good education, and think it not a hardship, but a happiness, to be under a strict and prudent… Read the whole commentary →