Proverbs 12:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

² A good man shall obtain favour of the LORD: But a man of wicked devices will he condemn.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: But a man of wicked devices will he condemn.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² A good man obtains favor from the Lord, but a man of wicked devices He condemns.

American Standard Version (1901)

² A good man shall obtain favor of Jehovah; But a man of wicked devices will he condemn.

Common English Bible

² The LORD favors good people, but he condemns schemers.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Whoever is good shall draw grace from the Lord. But whoever trusts in his own thoughts acts impiously.

Proverbs 12:2 Cross References

Proverbs 8:35

For whoso findeth me findeth life, And shall obtain favour of the LORD.

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.

Psalm 112:5

Well is it with the man that dealeth graciously and lendeth; He shall maintain his cause in judgement.

Romans 5:7

For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: for peradventure for the good man some one would even dare to die.

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 over the day of death; and there is no discharge in that war: neither shall wickedness deliver him that is given to it.

Proverbs 6:18

An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, Feet that be swift in running to mischief;

Psalm 9:15

The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: In the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

2 Samuel 15:3

And Absalom said unto him, See, thy matters are good and right; but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.

Proverbs 3:4

So shalt thou find favour and good understanding In the sight of God and man.

Proverbs 12:1

Whoso loveth correction loveth knowledge: But he that hateth reproof is brutish.

Proverbs 14:22

Do they not err that devise evil? But mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.

Proverbs 14:17

He that is soon angry will deal foolishly: And a man of wicked devices is hated.