Proverbs 20:6

Modern English Version

Many a man will proclaim each his own goodness, but a loyal man, who can find?

Cross References

Psalm 12:1

Help, Lord, for the godly man comes to an end, for the faithful disappear from the sons of men.

Psalm 12:2

They speak empty words, each with his own neighbor; with flattering lips and a deceitful heart they speak.

Proverbs 20:5

Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.

Proverbs 25:14

Like clouds and wind without the rain, so is he who boasts himself of a false gift.

Proverbs 27:2

Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

Ecclesiastes 7:28

which my soul has continued to seek out, but I have not come to find it. I have found only one upright man in a thousand, but a woman among all of these I have not discovered.

Jeremiah 5:1

Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, see now and know; seek in the open places if you can find a man, if there is any who executes justice, who seeks the truth, that I may pardon her.

Micah 7:1

Woe is me! Because I am as the gathering of summer fruit, as the gleaning of grapes; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that my soul desires.

Micah 7:2

The godly has perished from the earth, and no one is upright among men. All of them lie in wait for bloodshed; each hunts his brother with a net.

Matthew 6:2

“Therefore, when you do your charitable deeds, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be honored by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee stood and prayed these things about himself, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other men: extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

Luke 18:28

Peter said, “Look, we have left everything and followed You.”

Luke 18:8

I tell you, He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?”

Luke 22:33

He said to Him, “Lord, I am ready to go with You to prison and to death.”

John 1:47

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him and said concerning him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have become a fool in boasting. You have compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the leading apostles, though I am nothing.