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Proverbs 17:9

King James 2000

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

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[A Psalm of David. A maschil.] Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

Hatred stirs up strife: but love covers all sins.

A perverse man sows strife: and a whisperer separates best friends.

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

Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,

Let him know, that he who 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 love among yourselves: for love shall cover a multitude of sins.