“ Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins. ”
Love covereth all sins - i. e., First hides, does not expose, and then forgives and forgets all sins.
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...
Hatred stirreth up strifes. Illustrations: Ishmael ( Genesis 21:9-14 . Galatians 1:4 , Gal 1:29); Jews ( Acts 13:50 ; Acts 14:2-4 ; Acts 17:5 ; Acts 17:13 ). love covereth. The opposite actio...
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins. Hatred stirreth up strifes - It seeks for occasions to provoke enmity. It delights in broils. On the contrary, love conciliates; removes aggrav...
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.
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 r...
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 expla...
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 an...
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 exter...
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...
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 indee...
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. Bles...
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 l...
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...
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...
12 Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins. Here is, 1. The great mischief-maker, and that is malice. Even where there is no manifest occasion of strife, yet hatred...
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 covere...
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,...
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...
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 ha...
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...
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 t...
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 bein...
1 Corinthians 13:4 ; 1 Peter 4:8 ; James 4:1 ; James 5:20 ; Proverbs 15:18 ; Proverbs 16:27 ; Proverbs 17:9 ; Proverbs 28:25 ; Proverbs 29:22