Proverbs 20:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ Many proclaim themselves loyal, but who can find one worthy of trust?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: But a faithful man who can find?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Many a man proclaims his own loving-kindness and goodness, but a faithful man who can find?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ Most men will proclaim every one his own kindness; But a faithful man who can find?

Common English Bible

⁶ Many people will say that they are loyal, but who can find a reliable person?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ Many men are called merciful. But who will find a faithful man?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ Many men are called merciful: but who shall find a faithful man?

Proverbs 20:6 Cross References

Psalm 12:1

Help, O Lord, for there is no longer anyone who is godly; the faithful have disappeared from humankind.

Psalm 12:2

They utter lies to each other; with flattering lips and a deceitful heart they speak.

Proverbs 20:5

The purposes in the human mind are like deep water, but the intelligent will draw them out.

Proverbs 25:14

Like clouds and wind without rain is one who boasts of a gift never given.

Proverbs 27:2

Let another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips.

Ecclesiastes 7:28

which my mind has sought repeatedly, but I have not found. One man among a thousand I found, but a woman among all these I have not found.

Jeremiah 5:1

Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, look around and take note! Search its squares and see if you can find one person who acts justly and seeks truth— so that I may pardon Jerusalem.

Micah 7:1

Woe is me! For I have become like one who, after the summer fruit has been gathered, after the vintage has been gleaned, finds no cluster to eat; there is no first-ripe fig for which I hunger.

Micah 7:2

The faithful have disappeared from the land, and there is no one left who is upright; they all lie in wait for blood, and they hunt each other with nets.

Matthew 6:2

“So whenever you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be praised by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward.

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee, standing by himself, was praying thus, ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people: thieves, rogues, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

Luke 18:28

Then Peter said, “Look, we have left our homes and followed you.”

Luke 18:8

I tell you, he will quickly grant justice to them. And yet, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”

Luke 22:33

And he said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death!”

John 1:47

When Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him, he said of him, “Here is truly an Israelite in whom there is no deceit!”

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have been a fool! You forced me to it. Indeed you should have been the ones commending me, for I am not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.