Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh his very enemies to be his friends.

New American Standard Bible

When a man’s ways are pleasing to the Lord,
He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

King James Version

When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Holman Bible

When a man’s ways please the Lord,
He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

International Standard Version

When a person's ways please the LORD, even his enemies will be at peace with him.

A Conservative Version

When a man's ways please LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

American Standard Version

When a man's ways please Jehovah, He maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Amplified


When a man’s ways please the Lord,
He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Bible in Basic English

When a man's ways are pleasing to the Lord, he makes even his haters be at peace with him.

Darby Translation

When a man's ways please Jehovah, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Julia Smith Translation

The ways of a man being accepted of Jehovah also he will make his enemies friends with him.

King James 2000

When a man's ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Lexham Expanded Bible

When the ways of a man are pleasing [to] Yahweh, even his enemies he will cause to make peace with him.

Modern King James verseion

When a man's ways please Jehovah, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

NET Bible

When a person's ways are pleasing to the Lord, he even reconciles his enemies to himself.

New Heart English Bible

When a man's ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

The Emphasized Bible

When, acceptable to Yahweh, are the ways of a man, even his enemies, doth he cause to make peace with him.

Webster

When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

World English Bible

When a man's ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Youngs Literal Translation

When a man's ways please Jehovah, even his enemies, He causeth to be at peace with him.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אישׁ 
'iysh 
Usage: 692

דּרך 
Derek 
Usage: 704

the Lord

Usage: 0

אויב איב 
'oyeb 
Usage: 272

to be at peace
שׁלם 
Shalam 
Usage: 116

References

Context Readings

Proverbs Of Solomon

6 With loving mercy and faithfulness, sins be forgiven; and whoso searcheth the LORD eschewth evil. 7 When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh his very enemies to be his friends. 8 Better it is to have a little thing with righteousness, than great rents wrongfully gotten.

Cross References

Genesis 33:4

Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.

Genesis 27:41

And Esau hated Jacob, because of the blessing that his father blessed him withal, and said in his heart, "The days of my father's sorrow are at hand, for I will slay my brother Jacob."

Genesis 32:6-7

And the messengers came again to Jacob, saying, "We came unto thy brother Esau, and he cometh against thee; and four hundred men with him."

Genesis 32:28

And he said, "Thou shalt be called Jacob no more, but Israel. For thou hast wrestled with God and with men and hast prevailed."

2 Chronicles 17:10

And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were round about Judah, that they durst not war with Jehoshaphat.

Psalm 69:31

This shall please the LORD better than a bullock, that hath horns and hoofs.

Jeremiah 15:11

And the LORD answered me, "Lead not I thee then unto good? Come not I to thee, when thou art in trouble? And help thee, when thine enemy oppresseth thee?

Acts 9:1-2

And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,

Acts 9:19-20

And received meat and was comforted. Then was Saul a certain days with the disciples which were at Damascus.

Romans 8:31

What shall we then say unto these things? if God be on our side: who can be against us?

Philippians 4:18

I received all, and have plenty. I was even filled after that I have received of Epaphroditus, that which came from you, an odor that smelleth sweet, a sacrifice accepted and pleasant to God.

Colossians 1:10

that ye might walk worthy of the Lord in all things that please, being fruitful in all good works and increasing in the knowledge of God

Colossians 3:20

Children, obey your fathers and mothers, in all things, for that is well pleasing unto the Lord.

Hebrews 13:21

make you perfect in all good works, to do his will, working in you that which is pleasant in his sight through Iesus Christ: To whom be praise for ever while the world endureth. Amen.

1 John 3:22

and whatsoever we ask, that we shall receive of him: because we keep his commandments, and do those things which are pleasing in his sight.

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