Proverbs 10:12
Hate is a cause of violent acts, but all errors are covered up by love.
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- 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.
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9 He who keeps a sin covered is looking for love; but he who keeps on talking of a thing makes division between friends.
10 A word of protest goes deeper into one who has sense than a hundred blows into a foolish man.
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8 And most of all be warm in your love for one another; because in love there is forgiveness for sins without number:
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11 The mouth of the upright man is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the evil-doer is a bitter cup.
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26 Though his hate is covered with deceit, his sin will be seen openly before the meeting of the people.
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18 Hate is covered up by the lips of the upright man, but he who lets out evil about another is foolish.
19 Where there is much talk there will be no end to sin, but he who keeps his mouth shut does wisely.
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17 Better is a simple meal where love is, than a fat ox and hate with it.
18 An angry man makes men come to blows, but he who is slow to get angry puts an end to fighting.
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1 By a soft answer wrath is turned away, but a bitter word is a cause of angry feelings.
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19 The lover of fighting is a lover of sin: he who makes high his doorway is looking for destruction.
20 Nothing good comes to him whose heart is fixed on evil purposes: and he who has an evil tongue will come to trouble.
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13 He who keeps his sins secret will not do well; but one who is open about them, and gives them up, will get mercy.
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10 Love does no wrong to his neighbour, so love makes the law complete.
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6 Blessings are on the head of the upright, but the face of sinners will be covered with sorrow.
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24 With his lips the hater makes things seem what they are not, but deceit is stored up inside him;
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4 Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy?
5 Better is open protest than love kept secret.
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13 In the lips of him who has knowledge wisdom is seen; but a rod is ready for the back of him who is without sense.
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16 A foolish man lets his trouble be openly seen, but a sharp man keeps shame secret.
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36 But he who does evil to me, does wrong to his soul: all my haters are in love with death.
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14 The start of fighting is like the letting out of water: so give up before it comes to blows.
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14 By a secret offering wrath is turned away, and the heat of angry feelings by money in the folds of the robe.
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10 For it is said, Let the man who has a love of life, desiring to see good days, keep his tongue from evil and his lips from words of deceit:
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10 Send away the man of pride, and argument will go out; truly fighting and shame will come to an end.
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22 An angry man is the cause of fighting, and a man given to wrath does much wrong.
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9 Let love be without deceit. Be haters of what is evil; keep your minds fixed on what is good.
10 Be kind to one another with a brother's love, putting others before yourselves in honour;
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17 He who is quickly angry will do what is foolish, but the man of good sense will have quiet.
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10 The only effect of pride is fighting; but wisdom is with the quiet in spirit.
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10 He who has love for his brother is in the light, and there is no cause of error in him.
11 But he who has hate for his brother is in the dark, walking in the dark with no knowledge of where he is going, unable to see because of the dark.
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13 The fear of the Lord is seen in hating evil: pride, a high opinion of oneself, the evil way, and the false tongue, are unpleasing to me.
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34 By righteousness a nation is lifted up, but sin is a cause of shame to the peoples.
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17 Let no one have any evil thought in his heart against his neighbour; and have no love for false oaths: for all these things are hated by me, says the Lord.
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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;
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10 And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an offering for our sins.
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1 A lover of training is a lover of knowledge; but a hater of teaching is like a beast.
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1 <Of David. Maschil.> Happy is he who has forgiveness for his wrongdoing, and whose sin is covered.
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1 Go on loving your brothers in the faith.
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7 Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things.
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20 But if one who has hate for you is in need of food or of drink, give it to him, for in so doing you will put coals of fire on his head.
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5 The upright man is a hater of false words: the evil-doer gets a bad name and is put to shame.
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13 Being gentle to one another and having forgiveness for one another, if anyone has done wrong to his brother, even as the Lord had forgiveness for you:
14 And more than all, have love; the only way in which you may be completely joined together.
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24 He who keeps back his rod is unkind to his son: the loving father gives punishment with care.
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11 A man's good sense makes him slow to wrath, and the overlooking of wrongdoing is his glory.