Proverbs 12:5

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Summary

Proverbs 12:5

The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

Thoughts

Counsels

Bible References

Thoughts

The desire of the righteous, is only good, the expectation of the lawless, is wrath.

The purpose of folly, is sin, and, an abomination to mankind, is a buffoon.

In thy precepts, will I meditate, that I may discern thy paths.

Search me, O GOD, and observe my heart, Try me, and observe my cares;

Let the lawless forsake his way, And the man of iniquity, his thoughts, - And let him return unto Yahweh That he may have compassion upon him, And unto our God, For he will abundantly pardon.

Wash from wickedness thy heart, O Jerusalem, That thou mayest be saved, - How long, shall lodge within thee thy wicked devices?

Counsels

Deception, speak they, every one with his neighbour, - with lips uttering smooth things - with a heart and a heart, do they speak.

For he flattereth himself too much in his own eyes, to find his iniquity - to hate it .

And, if he have come to see me, Falsehood, doth he speak, His own heart, gathereth iniquity to itself, he goeth forth, abroad he telleth it.

Rescue me, O Yahweh, from the men of mischief, From the men of violence, wilt thou preserve me:

But, when King Herod heard, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him;

and they took counsel together, in order that, Jesus, by guile, they might secure, and slay.

So then, not before the fitting time, be judging anything, - until the Lord shall come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and, then, the praise shall come to each one, from God.

But have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, - but, by the manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves unto every conscience of men, in the sight of God.