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Proverbs 10:12

‘Love covers everything that is wrong.’ This is a beautiful line. When we love someone, we try not to think about their mistakes. Our love covers their mistakes, so that we do not think about their errors.

God loves us. He sent Jesus. When Jesus died, he suffered our punishment. Because of this, God forgives us. God does not simply cover our evil deeds. ‘God has taken our evil deeds away. God has moved our evil deeds far, far away from us.’ (Psalms 103:12)

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See also Proverbs 10:12 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Proverbs 10:12. _HATRED STIRRETH UP STRIFES_] It seeks for occasions to provoke enmity. It delights in broils. On the contrary, love conciliates; removes aggravations; puts the best construction...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    LOVE COVERETH ALL SINS - i. e., First hides, does not expose, and then forgives and forgets all sins....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    II. THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON: CHAPTER S 10--19:19 Beginning with the tenth chapter we have the collection of proverbs given by inspiration through Solomon. In this section the personal address, “My son...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    PROVERBS 10:2 (_cf._ Psalms 3:7). RIGHTEOUSNESS: the growth of the conception of righteousness is an important subject. As in the Pss., there is a specific class the righteous opposed to the wicked. T...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HATRED STIRRETH UP STRIFES. Illustrations: Ishmael (Genesis 21:9.Galatians 1:4, Gal 1:29); Jews (Acts 13:50; Acts 14:2;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _love covereth_&c. See 1 Peter 4:8, where the use of _charity_for _love_in A.V. obscures the fact that it is probably a quotation of this proverb. The LXX., however, has here a different reading (πάντ...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    LOVE COVERETH ALL SINS— St. Peter appears to have had this passage in view, Ephesians 1 chap. Proverbs 4:8. See the note on that place, and Bishop Sherlock's Discourses, vol. 3: disc. 6....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TEXT Proverbs 10:12-22 12. Hatred stirreth up strifes; But love covereth all transgressions. 13. In the lips of him that hath discernment wisdom is found; But a rod is for the back of him that i...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins. HATRED STIRRETH UP STRIFES: BUT LOVE COVERETH ALL SINS. "Stirreth up" - literally, as one lifting up a spear which before had been at rest. S...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Love hides them from sight....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Here we reach the first collection of what were supposed to be Solomon's proverbs. Most of them consist of two lines parallel to each other. The parallelism is one of contrast, or agreement, or explan...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    HATRED STIRRETH UP STRIFES... — Hatred rakes up again old feuds which have slumbered, but love covers up and refuses to look at any wrong done to it. A similar expression occurs in 1 Peter 4:8 and Jam...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    שִׂ֭נְאָה תְּעֹורֵ֣ר מְדָנִ֑ים וְ עַ֥ל כָּל ־

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 11 WEALTH "Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death." Proverbs 10:2 "O'er weening statesmen have full long relied On fleets and armies and external w...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED Proverbs 10:1-16 Wealth has its advantages, which are more than apparent. _The rich man's wealth is his strong city_, Proverbs 10:15; but the treasures which have been o...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here begin the proverbs proper. In this collection they are antithetical, They present a sharp contrast between wisdom and folly in the outworking of such in practical life. Seeing that this is indeed...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Sins. Septuagint, "all who contend." Charity pardons all, 1 Peter iv. 8._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich. He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame. Bless...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be followe...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    HATRED STIRRETH UP STRIFES,.... A man, whose heart is full of hatred and malice against his neighbour, will stir up, or awake, as the word d signifies, contentions and quarrels which were happily laid...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins. Ver. 12. _Hatred stirreth up strifes._] Especially when hatred is grown from a passion to a habit, which is, when the heart is so settled in an...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Hatred stirreth up strife_ Upon every slight occasion, by filling men's minds with suspicions and surmises, whereby they imagine faults where there are none, and aggravate every small offence; _but l...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    V. 12. HATRED STIRRETH UP STRIFES, so that constant quarrels and disputes are the result; BUT LOVE COVERETH ALL SINS, by treating transgressions in a kind manner, as diseases of the soul, by being rea...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1 The comfort of parents much depends on their children; and this suggests to both, motives to their duties. Proverbs 10:2; Proverbs 10:3. Though the righteous may be poor, the Lord will not suffer h...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    HATRED STIRRETH UP STRIFES upon every slight occasion, by filling men with suspicions and surmises, whereby they imagine faults where there are none, and aggravate every small offence. LOVE COVERETH A...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Proverbs 10:12 Hatred H8135 up H5782 (H8787) strife H4090 love H160 covers H3680 (H8762) sins H6588...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON (PROVERBS 10:1 TO PROVERBS 22:16). The proverbs in this section are now introduced by the brief subheading ‘The Proverbs Of Solomon'. Contrast ‘The sayings of Solomon, the Son...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE RIGHTEOUS (THE WISE) WALK UPRIGHTLY, ARE A WELLSPRING OF LIFE TO OTHERS, STORE UP KNOWLEDGE, ACCEPT CORRECTION, THINK BEFORE THEY SPEAK AND ACT AS SHEPHERD TO MANY. THE UNRIGHTEOUS PERVERT THEIR W...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    A COLLECTION OF SOLOMON'S PROVERBS (PROVERBS 10:1 TO PROVERBS 29:27). Solomon's presentation of The Book of Proverbs has followed the pattern of much Wisdom literature. This commenced with the initial...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    A COLLECTION OF SOLOMON'S PROVERBS (PROVERBS 10:1 TO PROVERBS 29:27). Solomon's presentation of The Book of Proverbs has followed the pattern of much Wisdom literature. This commenced with the initial...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The blessedness of the ways of righteousness and the folly of the ways of wickedness. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: The head of the just man will be crowned with the blessings both...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Proverbs 10:1. _The Proverbs of Solomon._ The nine preseding Chapter s may be regarded as a vestibule to the temple. Wisdom has been personified, and folly thrown into the darker shades. We have had a...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins._ THE HIDING WORK OF LOVE Love is not a New Testament virtue or grace, nor is it left for the New Testament to praise it in high strains of mus...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 10:1 Proverbs 1:1 of Solomon. Here begins what may be called the “proverbs proper.” They are short, individual sayings, in contrast to the lon

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 10:12 The wicked are described as concealing violence (vv. Proverbs 10:6, Proverbs 10:11

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 10:12_ LOVE AND HATRED The lawfulness or unlawfulness of hatred and strife depends upon the subject or occasion of such feeling. God hates sin, and we know that this hatr...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION VERSE 1-22:16 PART III. FIRST GREAT COLLECTION (375) OF SOLOMONIC PROVERBS. VERSE 1-12:28 First section. The sections are noted by their commencing usually with the words, "a wise son....

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in chapter 10 we have individual proverbs. Most of these individual proverbs are in contrast, where they are contrasting the wise with the foolish, or the wicked with the righteous. Or the diligen...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 13:4; 1 Peter 4:8; James 4:1; James 5:20; Proverbs 15:18

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