Devine Scripture

Proverbs 12:5

Proverbs chapter 12 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

The thoughts of the righteous are just; Butthe counsels of the wicked are deceit.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

The thoughts of the righteous are just; Butthe counsels of the wicked are deceit.

Context

v.4A worthy woman is the crown of her husband; But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

v.5This passage

v.6The words of the wicked are of lying in wait for blood; But the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Isaiah 55:7

    let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto Jehovah, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

  • Jeremiah 4:14

    O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thine evil thoughts lodge within thee?

  • Matthew 2:3

    And when Herod the king heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

  • Matthew 26:4

    and they took counsel together that they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him.

  • Psalms 139:23

    Search me, O God, and know my heart: Try me, and know my thoughts;

  • Matthew 2:16

    Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the Wise-men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the male children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had exactly learned of the Wise-men.