Proverbs 17:9 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁹ He who forgives an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter alienates a friend.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; But he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ He who covers and forgives an offense seeks love, but he who repeats or harps on a matter separates even close friends.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; But he that harpeth on a matter separateth chief friends.

Common English Bible

⁹ One who seeks love conceals an offense, but one who repeats it divides friends.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Whoever conceals an offense seeks friendships. Whoever repeats the words of another separates allies.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ He that concealeth a transgression, seeketh friendships: he that repeateth it again, separateth friends.

Proverbs 17:9 Cross References

Psalm 32:1

Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

Proverbs 10:12

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

Proverbs 16:28

A perverse man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.

Proverbs 17:10

A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred blows into a fool.

1 Corinthians 13:4

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful;

James 5:20

let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

1 Peter 4:8

Above all hold unfailing your love for one another, since love covers a multitude of sins.