Proverbs 17:9 - Modern King James Version

⁹ He who covers a transgression seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates friends.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; But he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ He who covers and forgives an offense seeks love, but he who repeats or harps on a matter separates even close friends.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; But he that harpeth on a matter separateth chief friends.

Common English Bible

⁹ One who seeks love conceals an offense, but one who repeats it divides friends.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Whoever conceals an offense seeks friendships. Whoever repeats the words of another separates allies.

Proverbs 17:9 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 32:1

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

Proverbs 10:12

Hatred stirs up fights, but love covers all sins.

Proverbs 16:28

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

Proverbs 17:10

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

1 Corinthians 13:4

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

James 5:20

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.

1 Peter 4:8

And above all things have fervent love to yourselves, for love will cover a multitude of sins.