Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.
BSB
ASV
Hatred stirreth up strifes; But love covereth all transgressions.
KJV
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
Ignorance involves a lack of education and learning. It is teaching which implants in us the scientific knowledge of things divine and human. It is possible to live uprightly in poverty. It is also possible in wealth. We admit that it is easier and quicker to track down virtue if we have a preliminary education. It can be hunted down without these aids, although even then those with learning, "with their faculties trained by practice," have an advantage. "Hatred," says Solomon, "stirs up strife, but education guards the paths of life."
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 asleep; these he renews by tale bearing, and whisperings, and evil surmises; by raising lies, spreading false reports and calumnies, and by virulent reproaches and slanders; but love covereth all sins; not its own, but others; in imitation of the pardoning love and grace of God, which covers all the sins of his people with the blood and righteousness of his Son.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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1 Peter 4:8Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
leads to
And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.
Whoever conceals an offense promotes love, but he who brings it up separates friends.
consider this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and cover over a multitude of sins.
Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.
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Proverbs 17:9Whoever conceals an offense promotes love, but he who brings it up separates friends.
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Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
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James 5:20consider this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and cover over a multitude of sins.
leads to
Pay close attention to your life and to your teaching. Persevere in these things, for by so doing you will save both yourself and those who hear you.
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Proverbs 15:18A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger calms dispute.
leads to
Like charcoal for embers and wood for fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.
