Proverbs 20:6

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Proverbs 20:6

Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?

Proclaim

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Proclaim

As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.

Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don't sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"

He said to him, "Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!"

I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

But

Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.

which my soul still seeks; but I have not found. One man among a thousand have I found; but I have not found a woman among all those.

"Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places of it, if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks truth; and I will pardon her.

The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!"