Proverbs 20:6

New English Translation

Many people profess their loyalty, but a faithful person – who can find?

Cross References

Psalm 12:1

Deliver, Lord! For the godly have disappeared; people of integrity have vanished.

Psalm 12:2

People lie to one another; they flatter and deceive.

Proverbs 20:5

Counsel in a person’s heart is like deep water, but an understanding person draws it out.

Proverbs 25:14

Like cloudy skies and wind that produce no rain, so is the one who boasts of a gift not given.

Proverbs 27:2

Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; someone else, and not your own lips.

Ecclesiastes 7:28

What I have continually sought, I have not found; I have found only one upright man among a thousand, but I have not found one upright woman among all of them.

Jeremiah 5:1

The Lord said, “Go up and down through the streets of Jerusalem. Look around and see for yourselves. Search through its public squares. See if any of you can find a single person who deals honestly and tries to be truthful. If you can, then I will not punish this city.

Micah 7:1

I am depressed! Indeed, it is as if the summer fruit has been gathered, and the grapes have been harvested. There is no grape cluster to eat, no fresh figs that I crave so much.

Micah 7:2

Faithful men have disappeared from the land; there are no godly men left. They all wait in ambush so they can shed blood; they hunt their own brother with a net.

Matthew 6:2

Thus whenever you do charitable giving, do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in synagogues and on streets so that people will praise them. I tell you the truth, they have their reward.

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee stood and prayed about himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people: extortionists, unrighteous people, adulterers – or even like this tax collector.

Luke 18:28

And Peter said, “Look, we have left everything we own to follow you!”

Luke 18:8

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

Luke 22:33

But Peter said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!”

John 1:47

Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and exclaimed, “Look, a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit!”

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have become a fool. You yourselves forced me to do it, for I should have been commended by you. For I lack nothing in comparison to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.