Proverbs 20:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

Most men will proclaim each his own goodness, but a faithful man who can find?

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  • Ps 12:1 : 1 Help, LORD; for the godly person ceases; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
  • Matt 6:2 : 2 Therefore, when you do your charitable deeds, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory from men. Truly, I say to you, they have their reward.
  • Luke 18:8 : 8 I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, shall he find faith on the earth?
  • Luke 18:11 : 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank you that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.
  • Prov 25:14 : 14 Whoever boasts of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.
  • Prov 27:2 : 2 Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
  • Eccl 7:28 : 28 Which my soul still seeks, but I find not; one man among a thousand I have found, but a woman among all those I have not found.
  • Jer 5:1 : 1 Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who executes judgment, who seeks the truth; and I will pardon it.
  • Mic 7:2 : 2 The good man has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among men; they all lie in wait for blood, they hunt each his brother with a net.
  • Luke 18:28 : 28 Then Peter said, Look, we have left all, and followed you.
  • Luke 22:33 : 33 And he said to him, Lord, I am ready to go with you, both to prison and to death.
  • John 1:47 : 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!
  • 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 I have become a fool in boasting; you have compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For in nothing am I behind the very chief apostles, though I am nothing.

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