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Proverbs 12:5
5The thoughts of the righteous are right; the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
Proverbs 12:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
- New International Version (NIV)The plans of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The thoughts of the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The thoughts of the righteous are right, But the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.
Context of Proverbs 12:5
3A man shall not be established by wickedness; but the root of the righteous shall not be moved. 4A woman of worth is a crown to her husband; but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones. The thoughts of the righteous are right; the counsels of the wicked are deceit. 6The words of the wicked are a lying-in-wait for blood; but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. 7Overthrow the wicked, and they are no [more]; but the house of the righteous shall stand.
Read all of Proverbs 12Proverbs 12:5 word by word
מַחְשְׁב֣וֹת צַדִּיקִ֣ים מִשְׁפָּ֑ט תַּחְבֻּל֖וֹת רְשָׁעִ֣ים מִרְמָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Proverbs 12:5
- Proverbs 11:23The desire of the righteous is only good; the expectation of the wicked is wrath.
- Proverbs 24:9The purpose of folly is sin, and the scorner is an abomination to men.
- Psalms 119:15I will meditate upon thy precepts, and have respect unto thy paths.
- Psalms 139:23Search me, O God, and know my heart; prove me, and know my thoughts;
- Isaiah 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto Jehovah, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
- Jeremiah 4:14Wash thy heart, Jerusalem, from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
- Psalms 12:2They speak falsehood every one with his neighbour: [with] flattering lip, with a double heart, do they speak.
- Psalms 36:2For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, [even] when his iniquity is found to be hateful.
- Psalms 41:6And if one come to see [me], he speaketh falsehood; his heart gathereth wickedness to itself: he goeth abroad, he telleth [it].
- Psalms 140:1Free me, O Jehovah, from the evil man; preserve me from the violent man:
- Matthew 2:3But Herod the king having heard [of it], was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him;
- Matthew 26:4and took counsel together in order that they might seize Jesus by subtlety and kill him;
- 1 Corinthians 4:5So that do not judge anything before [the] time, until the Lord shall come, who shall also both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and shall make manifest the counsels of hearts; and then shall each have [his] praise from God.
- 2 Corinthians 4:2But we have rejected the hidden things of shame, not walking in deceit, nor falsifying the word of God, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every conscience of men before God.
Commentaries on Proverbs 12:5
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 5Verse 5 Thoughts are not free; they are under the Divine knowledge, therefore under the Divine command. It is a man's shame to act with deceit, with trick and design.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. thoughts--or, "purposes." are right--literally, "are judgment," that is, true decisions. counsels--(Compare Pr 11:14). deceit--contrary to truth and honesty.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 12
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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