Proverbs 10:12
Hatred, stirreth up strifes, but, over all transgressions, love throweth a covering.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
In Context
11A well-spring of life, is the mouth of the righteous, but, the mouth of the lawless, covereth wrong.
Cross References
Proverbs 16:27An abandoned man, diggeth up mischief,—and, upon his lips, as it were a fire is scorching.
Proverbs 28:25The ambitious in soul, stirreth up strife, but, he that trusteth in Yahweh, shall be enriched.
1 Corinthians 13:4Love, is patient, is gracious. Love, is not envious, vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
James 5:20Be ye taking note—that, he that turneth back a sinner out of the error of his way—will save his soul out of death, and hide a multitude of sins.
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 →