Proverbs 20:6
Many a person proclaims he is loyal, 1 but who can find one who is faithful? 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
In Context
7The righteous person walks in his integrity, 1 and his sons who follow after him will be blessed. 1
Cross References
Psalms 12:1Help, Yahweh, for the godly have disappeared; 1 the faithful have vanished. 1
Proverbs 25:14Clouds and wind without rain 1 is the one who boasts about a gift he does not give. 1
Ecclesiastes 7:28This is what I am still looking for, but I have not found it. I did find one righteous man among a thousand, but a woman among all those I did not find.
Micah 7:1Woe is me! 1 I have become like the gathering of summer fruit, 1 and like the grapes that have been gleaned; 1 there is no grape cluster to eat, 1 no ripe early fig that my soul desires. 1
Matthew 6:2So when you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before yourself as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may have the praise of people. Truly I say to you, they have received their reward.
Luke 18:11The Pharisee stood and prayed these things about himself, 'God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, unrighteous people, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 20:6
5 Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out. A man's wisdom is here said to be of use to him for the pumping of other people, and diving into them, 1. To get the knowledge of them. Though men's counsels and designs are ever so carefully concealed by them, so that they are as deep water which one cannot fathom, yet there are those who by sly insinuations, and questions that seem foreign, will get out of them both what they have done and what they intend to do. Those… Read the whole commentary →