<< Proverbs 12:2 >>

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
A good person obtains favor from the LORD, but the LORD condemns everyone who schemes.

King James Bible
A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.

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Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Verse 2

Note, 1. We are really as we are with God. Those are happy, truly happy, for ever happy, that obtain favour of the Lord, though the world frown upon them, and they find little favour with men; for in God's favour is life, and that is the fountain of all good. On the other hand those are miserable whom he condemns, however men may applaud them, and cry them up; whom he condemns he condemns to the second death. 2. We are with God as we are with men, as we have our conversation in this world. Our Father judges of his children very much by their conduct one to another; and therefore a good man, that is merciful, and charitable, and does good, draws out favour from the Lord by his prayers; but a malicious man, that devises wickedness against his neighbours, he will condemn, as unworthy of a place in his kingdom.

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