Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
The thoughts of the righteous are just; the advice of the wicked is treacherous.
New American Standard Bible
But the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.
King James Version
The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
Holman Bible
but guidance from the wicked leads to deceit.
International Standard Version
The plans of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.
A Conservative Version
The thoughts of the righteous are just. The counsels of the wicked are deceit.
American Standard Version
The thoughts of the righteous are just; But the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
Amplified
The thoughts and purposes of the [consistently] righteous are just (honest, reliable),
But the counsels and schemes of the wicked are deceitful.
Bible in Basic English
The purposes of upright men are right, but the designs of evil-doers are deceit.
Darby Translation
The thoughts of the righteous are right; the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
Julia Smith Translation
The purposes of the just are judgment: the guidance of the unjust, deceit
King James 2000
The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.
Modern King James verseion
The thoughts of the righteous are right; the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The thoughts of the righteous are right; but the imagination of the ungodly are deceitful.
NET Bible
The plans of the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.
New Heart English Bible
The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.
The Emphasized Bible
The plans of the righteous, are just, but, the counsels of the lawless, are deceitful.
Webster
The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
World English Bible
The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.
Youngs Literal Translation
The thoughts of the righteous are justice, The counsels of the wicked -- deceit.
Themes
Counsel » The counsels of the wicked
Deceit » The wicked full of » Their counsels
Deception » What is deceit/deceitful
Righteousness » They who walk in and follow » Think and desire good
Topics
Interlinear
Machashabah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 12:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
4 A woman of strength [is] the crown of her master, but like rot in his bones is she who brings shame. 5 The thoughts of the righteous are just; the advice of the wicked is treacherous. 6 The words of the wicked [are] an ambush of blood, but the mouth of the upright delivers them.
Cross References
Psalm 12:2-3
They speak falseness {to each other}. [With] flattering lips, [with] {a double heart} they speak.
Psalm 36:2-4
For he flatters himself in his eyes, hating to detect his iniquity.
Psalm 41:6-7
And when one comes to see [me], he speaks falsely; his heart gathers disaster for itself. He goes out to the street; he speaks.
Psalm 119:15
I will meditate on your precepts and look at your ways.
Psalm 139:23
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
Psalm 140:1-3
Rescue me, O Yahweh, from evil men. Preserve me from violent men,
Proverbs 11:23
The desire of the righteous [is] only good, but the expectation of the wicked, wrath.
Proverbs 24:9
Devising folly [is] a sin, and an abomination to humankind [is] a scoffer.
Isaiah 55:7
Let [the] wicked forsake his way, and [the] man of sin his thoughts. And let him return to Yahweh, that he may take pity on him, and to our God, for he will {forgive manifold}.
Jeremiah 4:14
Cleanse your heart from wickedness, Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. {How long} will your thoughts of mischief dwell in your inner part?
Matthew 2:3-8
And [when] King Herod heard [it], he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him,
Matthew 2:16
Then Herod, [when he] saw that he had been deceived by the wise men, became very angry, and he sent [soldiers] [and] executed all the children in Bethlehem and in all the region [around] it from [the age of] two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined precisely from the wise men.
Matthew 26:4
and plotted in order that they could arrest Jesus by stealth and kill [him].
1 Corinthians 4:5
Therefore do not judge anything before the time, until the Lord should come, who will both enlighten the hidden things of darkness and will reveal the counsels of hearts, and then praise will come to each one from God.
2 Corinthians 4:2
but we have renounced shameful hidden things, not behaving with craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but with the open proclamation of the truth commending ourselves to every person's conscience before God.