Proverbs 16:7
When a person's ways are pleasing to Yahweh, 1 he makes even that person's enemies to be at peace with him. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
When a man’s ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
In Context
8Better is a little with what is right, 1 than a large income with injustice. 1
Cross References
Genesis 27:41Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing that his father had given him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are near; after that I will kill my brother Jacob.”
Genesis 32:28The man said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel. For you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed.”
2 Chronicles 17:10Terror of Yahweh fell on all the kingdoms of the lands that were around Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat.
Ezra 8:36Then they gave the king's decrees to the king's high officials and the governors in the Province Beyond the River, and they helped the people and the house of God.
Jeremiah 15:11Yahweh said: “Will I not rescue you for good? 1 I will certainly make your enemies beg for help in the time of calamity and distress. 1
Acts 9:1But Saul, still speaking threats even of murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 16:7
6 By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the Lord men depart from evil. See here, 1. How the guilt of sin is taken away from us—by the mercy and truth of God, mercy in promising, truth in performing, the mercy and truth which kiss each other in Jesus Christ the Mediator—by the covenant of grace, in which mercy and truth shine so brightly—by our mercy and truth, as the condition of the pardon and a necessary qualification for it—by these, and not by the legal sacrifices, Mic. vi. 7, 8 . 2. How… Read the whole commentary →