Verse 12

Hate is a cause of violent acts, but all errors are covered up by love.

Referenced Verses

• 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 And most of all be warm in your love for one another; because in love there is forgiveness for sins without number:
• Prov 17:9 : 9 He who keeps a sin covered is looking for love; but he who keeps on talking of a thing makes division between friends.
• Prov 15:18 : 18 An angry man makes men come to blows, but he who is slow to get angry puts an end to fighting.
• Jas 5:20 : 20 Be certain that he through whom a sinner has been turned from the error of his way, keeps a soul from death and is the cause of forgiveness for sins without number.
• Jas 4:1 : 1 What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies?
• Prov 29:22 : 22 An angry man is the cause of fighting, and a man given to wrath does much wrong.
• 1 Cor 13:4-7 : 4 Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride; 5 Love's ways are ever fair, it takes no thought for itself; it is not quickly made angry, it takes no account of evil; 6 It takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but has joy in what is true; 7 Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things.
• Prov 16:27 : 27 A good-for-nothing man is a designer of evil, and in his lips there is a burning fire.
• Prov 28:25 : 25 He who is ever desiring profit is a cause of fighting; but he who puts his faith in the Lord will be made fat.