Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirreth vp contentions: but loue couereth all trespasses.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
In Context
11The mouth of a righteous man is a welspring of life: but iniquitie couereth the mouth of the wicked.
Cross References
Proverbs 16:27A wicked man diggeth vp euill, and in his lippes is like burning fire.
Proverbs 28:25He that is of a proude heart, stirreth vp strife: but he that trusteth in the Lord, shall be fatte.
1 Corinthians 13:4Loue suffreth long: it is bountifull: loue enuieth not: loue doeth not boast it selfe: it is not puffed vp:
James 5:20Let him know that he which hath conuerted the sinner from going astray out of his way, shall saue a soule from death, and shall hide a multitude of sinnes.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 10:12
11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. See here, 1. How industrious a good man is, by communicating his goodness, to do good with it: His mouth, the outlet of his mind, is a well of life; it is a constant spring, whence issues good discourse for the edification of others, like streams that water the ground and make it fruitful, and for their consolation, like streams that quench the thirst of the weary traveller. It is like a well of life, that is pure and… Read the whole commentary →