Proverbs 12:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

Proverbs 12:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 139:23
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Psalms 140:1-3
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man; …
Jeremiah 4:14
O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
Matthew 26:4
And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.

Topics

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Commentary

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

(vv. 5)

Note, 1. The word of God is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart, and judges them. We mistake if we imagine that thoughts are free. No, they are under the divine cognizance, and therefore under the divine command. 2. We ought to be observers of the thoughts and intents of our own hearts, and to judge of ourselves by them; for they are the first-born of the soul, that have most of i…

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

(vv. 5)

5. thoughts--or, “purposes.” are right--literally, “are judgment,” that is, true decisions. counsels--(Compare Pr 11:14). deceit--contrary to truth and honesty.