Proverbs 19:6
Many will entreat the favour of the liberal man: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.
In Context
5A false witness shall not be unpunished; and he that uttereth lies shall not escape.
Cross References
Genesis 42:6And Joseph was the governor over the land; he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph’s brethren came, and bowed down themselves to him with their faces to the earth.
2 Samuel 19:19And he said unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.
Psalms 45:12And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall entreat thy favour.
Proverbs 17:8A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.
Proverbs 19:12The king’s wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
Proverbs 29:26Many seek the ruler’s favour: but a man’s judgment cometh from the LORD.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 19:6
5 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape. Here we have, 1. The sins threatened—bearing false witness in judgment and speaking lies in common conversation. Men could not arrive at such a pitch of impiety as to bear false witness (where to the guilt of a lie is added that of perjury and injury) if they had not advanced to it by allowing themselves to speak untruths in jest and banter, or under pretence of doing good. Thus men teach their tongues to speak lies, Jer. ix. 5… Read the whole commentary →