Proverbs 26:26 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁶ though hatred is covered with guile, the enemy’s wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ Whose hatred is covered by deceit, His wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ Though his hatred covers itself with guile, his wickedness shall be shown openly before the assembly.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ Though his hatred cover itself with guile, His wickedness shall be openly showed before the assembly.

Common English Bible

²⁶ They may cover their hatred with trickery, but their evil will be revealed in public.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ Whoever covers hatred with deceit, his malice shall be revealed in the assembly.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ He that covereth hatred deceitfully, his malice shall be laid open in the public assembly.

Proverbs 26:26 Cross References

Genesis 4:8

Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.

Proverbs 10:9

Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but whoever follows perverse ways will be found out.

Matthew 23:28

So you also on the outside look righteous to others, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Luke 8:17

For nothing is hidden that will not be disclosed, nor is anything secret that will not become known and come to light.

1 Samuel 18:17

Then Saul said to David, “Here is my elder daughter Merab; I will give her to you as a wife; only be valiant for me and fight the Lord’s battles.” For Saul thought, “I will not raise a hand against him; let the Philistines deal with him.”

1 Samuel 18:21

Saul thought, “Let me give her to him that she may be a snare for him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” Therefore Saul said to David a second time, “You shall now be my son-in-law.”