Counsel in a person’s heart is deep water; but a person of understanding draws it out.
Proverbs 20:6 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Many a person proclaims his own loyalty, but who can find a trustworthy person? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: But a faithful man who can find? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Many a man proclaims his own loving-kindness and goodness, but a faithful man who can find? American Standard Version (1901) Most men will proclaim every one his own kindness; But a faithful man who can find? Common English Bible Many people will say that they are loyal, but who can find a reliable person? Catholic Public Domain Version Many men are called merciful. But who will find a faithful man? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Many men are called merciful: but who shall find a faithful man? |
Counsel in a person’s heart is deep water; but a person of understanding draws it out.
The one who boasts about a gift that does not exist is like clouds and wind without rain.
Let another praise you, and not your own mouth – a stranger, and not your own lips.
which my soul continually searches for but does not find: I found one person in a thousand, but none of those was a woman.
Roam through the streets of Jerusalem. Investigate; search in her squares. If you find one person, any who acts justly, who pursues faithfulness, then I will forgive her.
How sad for me! For I am like one who – when the summer fruit has been gathered after the gleaning of the grape harvest – finds no grape cluster to eat, no early fig, which I crave.
Faithful people have vanished from the land; there is no one upright among the people. All of them wait in ambush to shed blood; they hunt each other with a net.
So whenever you give to the poor, don’t sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be applauded by people. Truly I tell you, they have their reward.
The Pharisee was standing and praying like this about himself: “God, I thank you that I’m not like other people #– #greedy, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
I tell you that he will swiftly grant them justice. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth? ’
‘Lord,’ he told him, ‘I’m ready to go with you both to prison and to death.’
Then Jesus saw Nathanael coming towards him and said about him, ‘Here truly is an Israelite in whom there is no deceit.’
I have been a fool; you forced it on me. You ought to have commended me, since I am not in any way inferior to those ‘super-apostles’, even though I am nothing.