Proverbs 12:2
The good man obtains favor from the LORD, but the LORD condemns a man who devises evil.
BSB
ASV
A good man shall obtain favor of Jehovah; But a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
KJV
A good man obtaineth favour of the Lord: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
A good man obtaineth favor - First, it is God who makes him good; for every child of Adam is bad till the grace of God changes his heart. Secondly, while he walks in the path of obedience he increases in goodness, and consequently in the favor of the Lord.
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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Proverbs 8:35For whoever finds me finds life and obtains the favor of the LORD.
leads to
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”
And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
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Proverbs 1:31So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
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The backslider in heart receives the fill of his own ways, but a good man is rewarded for his ways.
Hear, O earth! I am bringing disaster on this people, the fruit of their own schemes, because they have paid no attention to My word and have rejected My instruction.
As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
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Romans 5:7Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.
leads to
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
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Acts 11:24Barnabas was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith, and a great number of people were brought to the Lord.
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It is well with the man who is generous and lends freely, whose affairs are guided by justice.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.