Proverbs 12:2

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ A good [man] obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.

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  • Prov 8:35 : 35 For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.
  • Eccl 8:8 : 8 [There is] no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither [hath he] power in the day of death: and [there is] no discharge in [that] war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
  • Isa 32:5-7 : 5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said [to be] bountiful. 6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. 7 The instruments also of the churl [are] evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
  • Acts 11:24 : 24 For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.
  • Rom 5:7 : 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
  • Ps 9:15 : 15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit [that] they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
  • Ps 112:5 : 5 A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.
  • Prov 1:31 : 31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
  • Prov 6:18 : 18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

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