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Proverbs 12:2 KJV
Proverbs · chapter 12 · verse 2
A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.Proverbs 12:2 · King James Version
Proverbs 12:2 in context
1Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
2A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
3A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
4A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
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Key words (Strong's)
- obtainethpûwqto issueH6329 →
- devicesmᵉzimmâha plan, usually evil , sometimes goodH4209 →
- favourrâtsôwndelightH7522 →
- goodṭôwbgood in the widest senseH2896 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
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Note, 1. We are really as we are with God. Those are happy, truly happy, for ever happy, that obtain favour of the Lord, though the world frown upon them, and they find little favour with men; for in God's favour is life, and that is the fountain of all good.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary