Proverbs 13:5
A righteous man hates lies, but a wicked man brings shame and disgrace.
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
In Context
6Righteousness guards the way of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.
Cross References
Psalms 119:163I hate and abhor falsehood. I love your law.
Proverbs 6:17arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
Proverbs 30:8Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me,
Ezekiel 20:43There you will remember your ways, and all your deeds in which you have polluted yourselves. Then you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.
Daniel 12:2Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Ephesians 4:25Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbour, for 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 →