Proverbs 13:5
A righteous man hates lies,but a wicked man brings shame and disgrace.
New Heart English Bible
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 6:17haughty 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 shall remember your ways, and all your doings, in which you have polluted yourselves; and you shall 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 shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Ephesians 4:25Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. 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 →