Proverbs 12:2 · KJV
“A good {man} obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.”
— Proverbs 12:2
Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof {is} brutish.
A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
Proverbs 12 — Context
Whoso 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.
Cross References
Proverbs 8:35
For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD. {obtain: Heb. bring forth}
Acts 11:24
For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.
Psalms 112:5
A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion. {discretion: Heb. judgment}
Romans 5:7
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
Isaiah 32:5-7
The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said {to be} bountiful.
Proverbs 1:31
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Ecclesiastes 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. {discharge: or, casting off weapons}
Proverbs 6:18
An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,