Proverbs 19:22

New English Translation

What is desirable for a person is to show loyal love, and a poor person is better than a liar.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:17

I know, my God, that you examine thoughts and are pleased with integrity. With pure motives I contribute all this; and now I look with joy as your people who have gathered here contribute to you.

2 Chronicles 6:8

The Lord told my father David, ‘It is right for you to have a strong desire to build a temple to honor me.

Job 17:5

If a man denounces his friends for personal gain, the eyes of his children will fail.

Job 6:15

My brothers have been as treacherous as a seasonal stream, and as the riverbeds of the intermittent streams that flow away.

Psalm 62:9

Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air.

Proverbs 19:1

Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is perverse in his speech and is a fool.

Proverbs 19:21

There are many plans in a person’s mind, but it is the counsel of the Lord which will stand.

Proverbs 19:23

Fearing the Lord leads to life, and one who does so will live satisfied; he will not be afflicted by calamity.

2 Corinthians 8:12

For if the eagerness is present, the gift itself is acceptable according to whatever one has, not according to what he does not have.

Titus 1:2

in hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the ages began.