Proverbs 10:12
Hebrew Text— Proverbs 10:12Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.
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but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.
if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
By patience a ruler is persuaded. A soft tongue breaks the bone.
A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.
Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.
Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.
but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,
Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,
A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.
He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.
All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.
“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.
with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.
to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
It shall be, when he is guilty of one of these, he shall confess that in which he has sinned;
I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin.
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.
For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.
A fool shows his annoyance the same day, but one who overlooks an insult is prudent.
He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.
Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger:
and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.
“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,
And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.
May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,
Pay attention to yourself and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.
The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,
So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.
Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,
This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.
God has delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb! What was I able to do in comparison with you?” Then their anger was abated toward him when he had said that.
David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against Yahweh.” Nathan said to David, “Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.
They spoke to him, saying, “If you are kind to these people, please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.”
Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.
To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,
not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.
You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.
An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.
Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.
A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.
He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
One who is greedy stirs up strife; but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper.