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Proverbs 17:9

New Messianic Version Bible

He that covers a transgression seeks love; but he that repeats a matter separates [very] friends.

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Hatred stirs up strifes: but love covers all sins.

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

A perverse (twisted) [habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition] man sows strife: and a whisperer separates chief friends.

Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) [is he whose] transgression [is] forgiven, [whose] sin [is] covered.

Charity suffers long, [and] is kind; charity envies not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

Let him know, that he which converts the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

A reproof (rebuke; scolding) enters more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.