Acts 5:3-10; Job 20:5; Matthew 24:35; Proverbs 19:9; Psalms 52:5; Zechariah 1:4-6
Proverbs 12. Here we have a number of proverbs handling the favourite subject of retribution ( Proverbs 12:2 f., Proverbs 12:7 ; Proverbs 12:14...
lip. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), App-6, for what is spoken. Illustration: Caleb and Joshua ( Numbers 14:30 ; Numbers 14:38 )....
The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment. A lying tongue is but for a moment - Truth stands for ever;...
The lip of truth shall be established— The LXX read, True lips establish testimony; but a hasty witness hath an unrighteous tongue. Houbigant ren...
The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment. The lip of truth shall be established forever. He who...
4. A crown, etc.] Possibly there may be a reference to the crown worn on their wedding-day by bride and bridegroom ( Song of Solomon 3:11 ; Song o...
A lying tongue is but for a moment . — Being detected and silenced by the providence of God, (Comp. Psalms 64:7-8 .)
CHAPTER 13 THE TONGUE "A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his MOUTH: and the doings of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him."...
Verse Proverbs 12:9 . That is to say, it matters little that one is not counted as of any importance by his neighbors if, nevertheless, he is able t...
The lip of truth shall be established forever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment. Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the c...
The lip of truth shall be established for ever ,.... The man that speaks truth is and will be established in his credit and reputation among men; he...
The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue [is] but for a moment. Ver. 19. The lips of truth shall be established for ever...
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword Words that are cutting and killing; opprobrious words, which grieve the spirits of those to wh...
19 The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment. Be it observed, to the honour of truth,...
The speaker of truth is constant, and always agreeable to himself, and his words, the more and longer they are tried, the more doth the truth of them...
The Importance Of Truth And Sound Authority ( Proverbs 12:17-24 ). In this next subsection the stress is on truth as opposed to falsehood, on auth...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 12:17 . Speaketh , literally “breathes.” Proverbs 12:18 . Speaketh , literally “babbles.” Health, “healing.” Pro...
Proverbs 12:4 . A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband, as illustrated at large in chap. 31. Proverbs 12:9 . He that is despised, and hath...
The lip of truth shall be established for ever. Truthfulness I. The righteousness of truth ( Proverbs 12:17 ). The highest and only proper use...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 12:1 Instruction ; correction, discipline, which shows a man his faults, gives him a lowly opinion of himself, and ope...
v. 19. The lip of truth shall be established forever, for truth, although trodden to the earth, will ever rise again; but a lying tongue is but fo...
A moment — Liars, though they may make a fair shew for a season, yet are quickly convicted.
19 The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.