Proverbs 13:5
A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
King James Version
In Context
4The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
6Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
Cross References
Psalms 119:163I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.
Proverbs 6:17A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Proverbs 30:8Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
Ezekiel 20:43And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.
Daniel 12:2And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Ephesians 4:25Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of 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 →