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Proverbs 17:9

American King James Version (1999)

He that covers a transgression seeks love; but he that repeats a matter separates very friends.

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

Hatred stirs up strifes: but love covers all sins.

A fraudulent man sows strife: and a whisperer separates chief friends.

A reproof enters more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.

Charity suffers long, and is kind; charity envies not; charity braggs not itself, is not puffed up,

Let him know, that he which converts the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.