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Proverbs 17:9

Modern King James Version

He who covers a transgression seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates friends.

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A Psalm of David. A Contemplation. Blessed is the man whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

Hatred stirs up fights, but love covers all sins.

A perverse man causes fighting, and a whisperer separates chief friends.

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

Charity has patience, is kind; charity is not envious, is not vain, is not puffed up;

know that he who turns back 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 to yourselves, for love will cover a multitude of sins.