Proverbs 14:22
Don’t they go astray who plot evil? But love and faithfulness belong to those who plan good.
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.
In Context
21He who despises his neighbor sins, but he who has pity on the poor is blessed.
23In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.
Cross References
Genesis 24:27He said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, the LORD has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.”
2 Chronicles 6:8But the LORD said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart;
Psalms 61:7He shall be enthroned in God’s presence forever. Appoint your loving kindness and truth, that they may preserve him.
Proverbs 6:14in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.
Proverbs 12:26A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
Proverbs 19:22That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness. A poor man is better than a liar.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 14:22
21 He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he. See here how men's character and condition are measured and judged of by their conduct towards their poor neighbours. 1. Those that look upon them with contempt have here assigned them a bad character, and their condition will be accordingly: He that despises his neighbour because he is low in the world, because he is of a mean extraction, rustic education, and makes but a mean figure, that thinks it below him to take… Read the whole commentary →