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Proverbs 12:22

in Proverbs 12

Lying lips are detestable to the LORD, but those who deal faithfully are His delight.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Lying lips are an abomination to Jehovah; But they that deal truly are his delight.

KJV

Lying lips are abomination to the Lord: but they that deal truly are his delight.

This verse in Proverbs 12

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

He who speaks the truth declares what is right

on Proverbs 12:17-22

Verses 17 to 22 gather proverbs on the tongue. Rash words are “like a piercing sword,” but “the tongue of the wise brings healing,” and “Truthful lips endure forever”. “Lying lips are detestable to the LORD,” as dishonest scales are at 11:1, and “those who deal faithfully are His delight”.

This site's exposition

Lying lips are detestable to the LORD

The verse closes a run on true and false speech that began at verse 17. Faithful dealing delights the LORD. Truth here reaches from the lips into the whole of a man's dealings.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

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The words behind it

7 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • תּוֹעֲבַ֣ת[are] [the] abomination of

    toavatH8441 →117 times

  • יְ֭הוָהYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • שִׂפְתֵי־lips of

    siftei-H8193 →176 times

  • שָׁ֑קֶרfalsehood

    shakerH8267 →113 times

  • וְעֹשֵׂ֖יand doers of

    veoseiH6213 →2628 times

  • אֱמוּנָ֣הfaithfulness

    ʾemunahH530 →49 times

  • רְצוֹנֽוֹ׃[are] delight his

    retzonoH7522 →56 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 9:24

    But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth—for I delight in these things,”…

    it leads to

    • 2 Corinthians 10:17

      Rather, “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”

    • Galatians 6:14

      But as for me, may I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

    • 1 Corinthians 1:31

      Therefore, as it is written: “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”

    • Micah 6:8

      He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

    • Micah 7:18

      Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?

  • Through

    Revelation 22:15

    But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

    it leads to

    • Revelation 21:8

      But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Galatians 5:19–21

      The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;

    • Philippians 3:2

      Watch out for those dogs, those workers of evil, those mutilators of the flesh!

Where this verse is studied

About Proverbs

The Judgment of Solomon, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Judgment of Solomon, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Charles Bridges, An Exposition of the Book of Proverbs; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).