Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
In Context
11The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
Cross References
Proverbs 16:27An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
Proverbs 28:25He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.
1 Corinthians 13:4Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
James 5:20Let him know, that he who converteth a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death, and will 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 →