Proverbs 19:22
Loyalty is what a person desires 1 and a poor person is better than a liar. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.
In Context
21Many are the plans in a person's heart, 1 but it is the purpose of Yahweh that will stand. 1
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:17I know also, my God, that you examine the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things, and now I look with joy as your people who are present here willingly offer gifts to you.
Job 6:15But my brothers have been as faithful to me as a desert streambed, 1 as channels of water that pass away to nothing, 1
Psalms 62:9Surely men of low standing are vanity, and men of high standing are a lie; 1 they will weigh lightly in the scales; 1 weighed together, they are lighter than nothing. 1
Mark 12:41Then Jesus sat down across from an offering box in the temple area; he was watching people as they dropped their money into the box. Many rich people put in large amounts of money.
2 Corinthians 8:2During a great test of affliction, the abundance of their joy and the extremity of their poverty have produced great riches of generosity.
Titus 1:2with the certain hope of everlasting life that God, who does not lie, promised before all the ages of time.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 19:22
21 There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the Lord , that shall stand. Here we have, 1. Men projecting. They keep their designs to themselves, but they cannot hide them from God; he knows the many devices that are in men's hearts, —devices against his counsels (as those, Ps. ii. 1-3 ; Micah iv. 11 ),— devices without his counsel (no regard had to his providence, as those Jam. iv. 13 , this and the other they will do, and not take God along with them),—devices unlike God's counsels;… Read the whole commentary →