Verse 12

Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.

Referenced Verses

• 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 Above all keep your love for one another fervent, because love covers a multitude of sins.
• Prov 17:9 : 9 The one who forgives an offense seeks love, but whoever repeats a matter separates close friends.
• Prov 15:18 : 18 A quick-tempered person stirs up dissension, but one who is slow to anger calms a quarrel.
• Jas 5:20 : 20 he should know that the one who turns a sinner back from his wandering path will save that person’s soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
• Jas 4:1 : 1 Passions and Pride Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you?
• Prov 29:22 : 22 An angry person stirs up dissension, and a wrathful person is abounding in transgression.
• 1 Cor 13:4-7 : 4 Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful. 6 It is not glad about injustice, but rejoices in the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
• Prov 16:27 : 27 A wicked scoundrel digs up evil, and his slander is like a scorching fire.
• Prov 28:25 : 25 The greedy person stirs up dissension, but the one who trusts in the LORD will prosper.