Proverbs 12:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.

Proverbs 12:20 —

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Matthew 5:9
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
1 Peter 3:8-13
Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: …
Proverbs 12:12
The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.
Hebrews 12:14
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
Mark 7:21-22
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 20)

Note, 1. Those that devise mischief contrive, for the accomplishing of it, how to impose upon others; but it will prove, in the end, that they deceive themselves. Those that imagine evil, under colour of friendship, have their hearts full of this and the other advantage and satisfaction which they shall gain by it, but it is all a cheat. Let them imagine it ever so artfully, deceivers will be dece…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20. that imagine--or, “plan” (Pr 3:29). They design a deceitful course, to which, with all its evils and dangers to others and themselves, the happiness of peace-makers is opposed (compare Mt 5:9; Ro 12:18).