Proverbs 12:2
A good man shall obtain favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
In Context
1Whoso loveth correction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
3A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall never be moved.
Cross References
Psalms 9:15The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
Proverbs 1:31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Proverbs 8:35For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.
Ecclesiastes 8:8There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in that war: neither shall wickedness deliver him that is given to it.
Acts 11:24for he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added unto 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 →