Proverbs 12:2

American King James Version (1999)

A good man obtains favor of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:3

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

Psalm 112:5

A good man shows favor, and lends: he will guide his affairs with discretion.

Psalm 9:15

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

Proverbs 1:31

Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

Proverbs 12:1

Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge: but he that hates reproof is brutish.

Proverbs 14:17

He that is soon angry deals foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.

Proverbs 14:22

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

Proverbs 3:4

So shall you find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

Proverbs 6:18

An heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

Proverbs 8:35

For whoever finds me finds life, and shall obtain favor of the LORD.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither has 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.

Acts 11:24

For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added to the Lord.

Romans 5:7

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