Proverbs 10:12
Hatred awaketh contentions, And over all transgressions love covereth.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
In Context
11A fountain of life [is] the mouth of the righteous, And the mouth of the wicked cover doth violence.
Cross References
Proverbs 16:27A worthless man is preparing evil, And on his lips — as a burning fire.
Proverbs 28:25Whoso is proud in soul stirreth up contention, And whoso is trusting on Jehovah is made fat.
1 Corinthians 13:4The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,
James 5:20let him know that he who did turn back a sinner from the straying of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover 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 →