Proverbs 13:5
The righteous person hates lies, 1 but a wicked person makes himself repugnant, and he does what is shameful. 1
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A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
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Psalms 119:163I hate and despise falsehood, 1 but I love your law. 1
Proverbs 6:17The eyes of a proud person, a tongue that lies, 1 hands that shed the blood of innocent people, 1
Proverbs 30:8Put vanity and lies far away from me. 1 Give me neither poverty nor riches, 1 just give me the food I need. 1
Ezekiel 20:43There you will call to mind your conduct and all of your deeds by which you defiled yourselves, and you will despise yourselves in your own eyes for all your evil deeds that you have done.
Daniel 12:2Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will rise up, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Ephesians 4:25Therefore, get rid of lies, and let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor, because we are members of one another.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 13:5
4 The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat. Here is, 1. The misery and shame of the slothful. See how foolish and absurd they are; they desire the gains which the diligent get, but they hate the pains which the diligent take; they covet every thing that is to be coveted, but will do nothing that is to be done; and therefore it follows, They have nothing; for he that will not labour let him hunger, and let him not eat, 2 Thess. iii. 10 . The desire of the… Read the whole commentary →