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Proverbs 12:2
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Proverbs 12:2
2A good man obtaineth favour of the Lord: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
2A good man obtaineth fauour of the LORD: but a man of wicked deuices will he condemne.
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Proverbs 12:2
That which is right, beneficial, pleasing, useful, or morally upright.
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A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Kind regard, approval, goodwill, or a gracious disposition shown toward another.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Plans, purposes, designs, or contrivances.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To pronounce guilty or wrong; to sentence, judge against, disapprove, or doom.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study35For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord.
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Open the full verse study24For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.
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Open the full verse study5A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.
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Open the full verse study7For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
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Open the full verse study5The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.
6For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the Lord, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
7The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
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Open the full verse study31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
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Open the full verse study8There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
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Open the full verse study18An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
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Open the full verse study15The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
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