Proverbs 13:6
Righteousness, guardeth the man of blameless way, but, lawlessness, overthroweth the sinner.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
In Context
5A word of falsehood, the righteous man, hateth, but, the lawless, causeth shame and disgrace.
Cross References
1 Kings 13:34And so this thing became the sin of the house of Jeroboam,—that it should be both taken away and destroyed, from off the face of the ground.
Psalms 15:2He that walketh without blame, and doeth what is right, and speaketh truth with his heart;
Psalms 26:1Do me justice, O Yahweh, For, I, in my blamelessness, have walked, and, in Yahweh, have I trusted, I will not waver.
Proverbs 5:22His own iniquities, shall entrap him with the lawless, and, by the cords of his own sin, shall he be seized.
Proverbs 11:5The righteousness of the blameless, shall smooth his way, but, by his own lawlessness, shall the lawless one, fall.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 13:6
The Righteous Exclusively Happy. 5 A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame. Note, 1. Where grace reigns sin is loathsome. It is the undoubted character of every righteous man that he hates lying (that is, all sin, for every sin is a lie, and particularly all fraud and falsehood in commerce and conversation), not only that he will not tell a lie, but he abhors lying, from a rooted reigning principle of love to truth and justice, and conformity to God. 2. Where sin reigns the… Read the whole commentary →