Proverbs 12:2
A good man getteth fauour of the Lord: but the man of wicked immaginations will hee condemne.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
In Context
1He that loueth instruction, loueth knowledge: but he that hateth correction, is a foole.
3A man cannot be established by wickednesse: but the roote of the righteous shall not be mooued.
Cross References
Psalms 9:15The heathen are sunken downe in the pit that they made: in the nette that they hid, is their foote taken.
Proverbs 1:31Therefore shall they eate of ye fruite of their owne way, and be filled with their owne deuises.
Proverbs 8:35But he that sinneth against me, hurteth his owne soule: and all that hate me, loue death.
Ecclesiastes 8:8Man is not lorde ouer the spirit to retaine the spirite: neither hath hee power in the day of death, nor deliuerance in the battell, neither shall wickednesse deliuer the possessers thereof.
Acts 11:24For he was a good man, and full of the holy Ghost, and faith, and much people ioyned them selues vnto the Lord.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 12:2
Advantages of the Righteous. 1 Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish. We are here taught to try whether we have grace or no by enquiring how we stand affected to the means of grace. 1. Those that have grace and love it will delight in all the instructions that are given them by way of counsel; admonition, or reproof, by the word or providence of God; they will value a good education, and think it not a hardship, but a happiness, to be under a strict and prudent… Read the whole commentary →