Proverbs 12:26
The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduces them.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
In Context
25Heaviness in the heart of man makes it stoop: but a good word makes it glad.
Cross References
Psalms 18:12At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
Proverbs 14:22Do they not go astray that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.
Matthew 5:46For if all of you love them which love you, what reward have all of you? do not even the publicans the same?
James 1:13Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempts he any man:
2 Peter 2:18For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
Revelation 12:9And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceives the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 12:26
25 Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad. Here is, 1. The cause and consequence of melancholy. It is heaviness in the heart; it is a load of care, and fear, and sorrow, upon the spirits, depressing them, and disabling them to exert themselves with any vigour on what is to be done or fortitude in what is to borne; it makes them stoop, prostrates and sinks them. Those that are thus oppressed can neither do the duty nor take the comfort of any relation, condition, or… Read the whole commentary →