Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
12. love covereth &c.] See 1Pe 4:8, where the use of charity for love in A.V. obscures the fact that it is probably a quotation of this proverb. The LXX., however, has here a different reading ( ), so that the Apostle must either have quoted from the Hebrew, or taken the proverb as it was then in common use. Comp. Jas 5:20.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Love covereth all sins – i. e., First hides, does not expose, and then forgives and forgets all sins.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Pro 10:12
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 music. From the beginning love has been an angel in the world, gladdening men by its brightness, soothing men by its persuasiveness, and luring souls with infinite gentleness towards all that is true and beautiful. Love takes the largest view of life–it does not vex itself with temporary details, with transient aberrations; it looks down into the very core and substance of the soul, and, knowing that the heart is true in its supreme desires, it covers many flaws and specks, yea, even faults and sins, in the hope that concealment may destroy their influence and their very existence. There is a covering up which is a vain concealment, a merely deceitful trick; no such covering up is meant here: this is rather the covering up with which God covers the iniquities of the pardoned man, the sins of him who has confessed all his guilt, and desired an exercise of the Divine mercy. Love is not mere sentiment, an easy-going action of the mind, too self-complacent and self-indulgent to enter with energy into any moral inquiry. The love which is commended in Scripture is an ardent love, keen, critical, sagacious, far-sighted, not imagining that things are destroyed because they are concealed; it is the love of God which at all costs must expel sin from the universe, and set up the kingdom of God among men. (J. Parker, D.D.)
Charity like the orchid
In tropical forests the orchids thrust out long floating roots into mid-air, from the impure vapours of which they draw their nourishment. They live on trunks of huge decaying trees, which, as decomposition proceeds very rapidly, would, if left alone, fill the air with poisonous gases. But the orchid swings in rich festoons over the rotting boughs: covers the deformity with its own loveliness, absorbs all foul exhalations and turns them into the perfume of its own sweet flowers. Charity is this beautiful orchid, covering human frailty, clearing away harsh, suspicious, and cruel slanders; breathing forth merciful judgments, com- passionate sympathy. (James Neil, M.A.)
Fuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell
Verse 12. Hatred stirreth up strifes] It seeks for occasions to provoke enmity. It delights in broils. On the contrary, love conciliates; removes aggravations; puts the best construction on every thing; and pours water, not oil, upon the flame.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
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 covereth all sins; either doth not severely observe, or doth willingly forget and forgive, the offences or injuries of others, and so preventeth contention and mischief.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
12. strifesor, “litigations.”
coverethby forgivenessand forbearance.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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. Love spreads its mantle over the sins of its fellow creatures and Christians, and forgives them, even all of them: instead of exposing them, hides and conceals them; and, instead of loading and aggravating the infirmities of others, puts the best constructions on them, hopes and bears, and believes all things, 1Co 13:7; see 1Pe 4:8; where the apostle seems to have respect to this passage. This is not to be understood as conniving at or suffering sin upon others, or as contrary to Christian reproofs and rebukes for it.
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Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Another proverb of the different effects of hatred and of love:
Hate stirreth up strife,
And love covereth all transgressions.
Regarding , for which the Ker elsewhere substitutes , vid., under Pro 6:14. Hatred of one’s neighbour, which is of itself an evil, has further this bad effect, that it calls forth hatred, and thus stirreth up strife, feuds, factions, for it incites man against man (cf. , Job 3:8); on the contrary, love covers not merely little errors, but also greater sins of every kind ( ), viz., by pardoning them, concealing them, excusing them, if possible, with mitigating circumstances, or restraining them before they are executed. All this lies in the covering. James, however, gives it, Jam 5:20, another rendering: love covers them, viz., from the eyes of a holy God; for it forgives them to the erring brother, and turns him from the error of his way. The lxx improperly translate ; but Peter (1Pe 4:8) as well as James, but none of the Greek versions; . The Romish Church makes use of this passage as a proof for the introduction of the fides formata , viz., caritate , in justification, which is condemned in the Apology of the Augsburg Confession; and, indeed, the multitudo peccatorum is not meant of the sins of him who cherishes love, but of the sins of the neighbour. Sin stirs up hatred in men in their relation to one another; but love covers the already existing sins, and smooths the disturbances occasioned by them.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
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 seeks occasion and so stirs it up and does the devil’s work. Those are the most spiteful ill-natured people that can be who take a pleasure in setting their neighbours together by the ears, by tale-bearing, evil surmises, and misrepresentations, blowing up the sparks of contention, which had lain buried, into a flame, at which, with an unaccountable pleasure, they warm their hands. 2. The great peace-maker, and that is love, which covers all sins, that is, the offences among relations which occasion discord. Love, instead of proclaiming and aggravating the offence, conceals and extenuates it as far as it is capable of being concealed and extenuated. Love will excuse the offence which we give through mistake and unadvisedly; when we are able to say that there was no ill intended, but it was an oversight, and we love our friend notwithstanding, this covers it. It will also overlook the offence that is given us, and so cover it, and make the best of it: by this means strife is prevented, or, if begun, peace is recovered and restored quickly. The apostle quotes this, 1 Pet. iv. 8. Love will cover a multitude of sins.
Fuente: Matthew Henry’s Whole Bible Commentary
MAIN HOMILETICS OF Pro. 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 hatred is the fruit of one of His highest attributes. The divine and Incarnate Son of God foretold that He had not come to send peace on earth, but a sword (Mat. 10:34), and therefore even He was an occasion of strife because He was a hater of sin. There is then a holy as well as a wicked hatred, a lawful as well as an unlawful strife. But the hatred of the text being placed in contrast with love is evidently the malicious hatred of a wicked man.
I. The hatred of the wicked is
1. Insatiable. It has been said that those who hate have first injured. This is doubtless true, but there must have been some amount of hatred to prompt the injury. But after the injury has been inflicted, the hatred is not diminished, but is generally increased. Herodias prevailed upon Herod to put John the Baptist into prison, but this did not lessen her malice. It was such a devouring flame as could be quenched by nothing but his blood. The pain which conscience inflicts upon him who has injured another is put to the account of the injured person, and goes to increase the bitterness of the anger against him.
2. It is generally impartial. Wicked men generally begin by hating good men, but they come in time to a habit of hating bad men too. The blind man will be as likely to strike his friend as his foe. Hatred is blind, and those who begin by hating those whom they consider their enemies, generally end by hating their so-called friends.
II. The effect of hatred. It stirs up strife. This implies that the materials for strife are already in existence. There are no signs of mud upon the surface of a peaceful lake, but it only requires some disturbing element to be thrown in to show that it is lying at the bottom. The spirit of the most sanctified man has some evil tendencies within it, which may be stirred up by undeserved hatred. Only One who ever wore our human nature had within Him no germ of strife which might be stirred up by hatred. Only One could say that temptation found nothing in Him (Joh. 14:13). The elements which may be stirred up to strife have a lodging place in the most sanctified human spirit, and when strife is thus stirred up by hatred the whole soul or the whole society is influenced for evil. When the lake is stirred up from the bottom all the waters are more or less troubled, and when the elements of contention are at work even in a good man or in a Christian community the whole man or the entire community is ruffled and disturbed. In contrast with this hatred, which is not only sin in itself but, by stirring up strife, is the occasion of sin in others, is placed the love which covereth or does away with sin.
I. Love covers sin by forgiving it. Malicious hatred, even when it is directed against sin, will but incite to more sin. But forgiveness of the sin may lead to its being forsaken, and the mere fact of being forgiven may give the sinner an impulse after a better life in the future, and thus enable him to efface the remembrance of the past. If a man is deeply in debt to another, and that other gives him a discharge of his debt, the very fact of his being legally free may give him such new energy to work as may enable him to pay that which he owed. And a sense of being forgiven a moral debt will sometimes have this effect upon the soul. Gods covering up of sin by forgiveness is the beginning of a new life to those who are willing to accept His pardon (Psa. 32:1; 1Jn. 1:7).
II. Love covers sin by forgetting it. It is in the nature of love not only to forgive an injury, but to forget that the injury has ever been done. And a consciousness that our sin is covered by being forgotten is very healing to the spirit. For a soul that has lived a sinful life is like a man that has passed through a campaign and received many wounds. He requires skilful treatment and gentle nursing; and when the wounds have been bound up, and have, perhaps, begun to heal, care must be taken that no rough hand re-opens them, and causes them to bleed afresh. A word spoken which shows that the sinful past is still remembered by those who have professed to forgive, may re-open old wounds with a fatal effect. Love covers sin as God declares that He covers it. His promise is not only I will forgive their iniquity, but, I will remember their sin no more (Jer. 31:34).
III. Love covers sin by making active efforts to recover the sinner. Love will not be content with forgiving when forgiveness is sought, but it will go out of its way to recover the erring. The godly man will walk in the foot-steps of Him who came to seek that which was lost. God did not wait until man returned to Him before He held out hope of forgiveness. As soon as Satans hatred had led man into sin, He held out hope of return to holiness by the promise of Him who Should bruise the serpents head (Gen. 3:15). And in the fulness of time, by the gift of His Son, He showed the depth of His love and His desire to cover the sin of the world. And as in many human homes there are those who owe their present moral standing, the recovery of all that makes existence worth having, to the love that followed and sought them when they were outcasts, so those who people the heavenly homethat multitude which God alone can numberare the fruit of that Divine love which not only covered a multitude of sins by forgiving and forgetting the sin, but sought out the sinner in order to forgive him.
OUTLINES AND SUGGESTIVE COMMENTS
Love covereth all sins, saith Solomon, covers them partly from the eyes of God, in praying for the offenders; partly from the eyes of the world, in throwing a cloak over our brothers nakedness; especially from its own eyes, by winking at many wrongs offered it.T. Adams.
Hatred disturbs the existing quiet by railings; stirs up dormant quarrels on mere suspicions and trifles, and by unfavourable constructions put upon everything, even upon acts of kindness. As hatred by quarrels exposes the faults of others, so love covers them, except in so far as brotherly correction requires their exposure. Love condones, yea, takes no notice of a friends errors. The disagreements which hatred stirs up, love allays; and the offences which are usually the causes of quarrel, it sees as though it saw them not, and excuses them (1Co. 13:4-7). It gives to men the forgiveness which it daily craves from God.Fausset.
To abuse the precept in 1Pe. 4:8 (where this text is quoted) into a warrant for silencing all faithful reproofs of sin in others, would be to ascribe to charity the office of a procuress.Cartwright.
First, it makes us to cover and pardon the wrongs that others do us. Secondly, a loving carriage maketh others pardon the wrongs that we do them. Thirdly, it maketh God to pardon the offences which we commit against Him.Jermin.
Fuente: The Preacher’s Complete Homiletical Commentary Edited by Joseph S. Exell
TEXT Pro. 10:12-22
12.
Hatred stirreth up strifes;
But love covereth all transgressions.
13.
In the lips of him that hath discernment wisdom is found;
But a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
14.
Wise men lay up knowledge;
But the mouth of the foolish is a present destruction.
15.
The rich mans wealth is his strong city:
The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
16.
The labor of the righteous tendeth to life;
The increase of the wicked, to sin.
17.
He is in the way of life that heedeth correction;
But he that forsaketh reproof erreth.
18.
He that hideth hatred is of lying lips;
And he that utterth a slander is a fool.
19.
In the multitude of words there wanteth not transgression;
But he that refraineth his lips doeth wisely.
20.
The tongue of the righteous is as choice silver:
The heart of the wicked is little worth.
21.
The lips of the righteous feed many;
But the foolish die for lack of understanding.
22.
The blessing of Jehovah, it maketh rich;
And he addeth no sorrow therewith.
STUDY QUESTIONS OVER 10:12-22
1.
How does love cover transgressions (Pro. 10:12)?
2.
What is meant by one having discernment (Pro. 10:13)?
3.
Why dont more people lay up knowledge (Pro. 10:14)?
4.
To whom is the mouth of fools a present destructionto themselves or others (Pro. 10:14)?
5.
What is meant by ones wealth being his strong city (Pro. 10:15)?
6.
What kind of life does righteous labor lead to (Pro. 10:16)?
7.
What is meant by the increase of the wicked (Pro. 10:16)?
8.
What is meant by the way of life (Pro. 10:17)?
9.
Name several persons in the Bible who forsook reproof (Pro. 10:17).
10.
What might one say (lying lips) who is concealing his hatred (Pro. 10:18)?
11.
What two words in Pro. 10:18 are contrasts?
12.
Why do a multitude of words result in transgression (Pro. 10:19)?
13.
How is the tongue of the righteous like choice silver (Pro. 10:20)?
14.
What other Bible passages speak of words feeding people (Pro. 10:21)?
15.
What kind of death does Pro. 10:21 have in mind?
16.
Does the blessing of Jehovah make some people or all people rich (Pro. 10:22)? Explain.
17.
What is implied by some riches when it says, He addeth no sorrow therewith (Pro. 10:22)?
PARAPHRASE OF 10:12-22
12.
Hatred stirs old quarrels, but love overlooks insults.
13.
Men with common sense are admired as counselors; those without it are beaten as servants.
14.
A wise man holds his tongue. Only a fool blurts out everything he knows; that only leads to sorrow and trouble.
15.
The rich mans wealth is his only strength. The poor mans poverty is his only curse.
16.
The good mans earnings advance the cause of righteousness. The evil man squanders his on sin.
17.
Anyone willing to be corrected is on the pathway to life. Anyone refusing has lost his chance.
18.
To hate is to be a liar; to slander is to be a fool.
19.
Dont talk so much. You keep putting your foot in your mouth. Be sensible and turn off the flow!
20.
When a good man speaks, he is worth listening to, but the words of fools are a dime a dozen.
21.
A godly man gives good advice, but a rebel is destroyed by lack of common sense.
22.
The Lords blessing is our grestest wealth. All our work adds nothing to it!
COMMENTS ON 10:12-22
Pro. 10:12. Hatred does not desire the fellowship of the one hated, does not wish the peace and the welfare of the one hated. Hatred must show itself, and the result is trouble and strife. Hatred will stir up strife by picking on all the small talking points that love would have overlooked (1Co. 13:4). The soft answer (of love) will turn away wrath, but the grievous words (of hatred) will stir up strife (Pro. 15:1). Other Scriptures on loves covering or concealing faults: Pro. 17:9; 1Pe. 4:8.
Pro. 10:13 One who is wise has discerning lips; that is, he knows what to say and what not to say, when to say it and when not to, how to say it and how not to, how much to say, where to say it and where not to, etc. Jesus perfection was also seen in this. Peters imperfection often exhibited itself in this (Mat. 16:21-23; Luk. 9:32-35; Joh. 21:19-22. Proper speech is a crowning virtue (Jas. 3:2). During World War II Uncle Sam was shown on posters with his finger saying, Sh-h-h. Another government poster during that war showed a big ship sinking and included these few words, Somebody talked! No wonder Pro. 26:3 says, A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the back of fools.
Pro. 10:14. A wise man does more listening (taking in, laying up) than he does talking; the fool, just the opposite. See Pro. 18:7; Pro. 21:23. Christians are taught to be swift to hear but slow to speak (Jas. 1:19).
Pro. 10:15. The opening statement is also in Pro. 18:11. Strong city means that in which he trusts. There are those who trust in their riches (Psa. 52:7). 1Ti. 6:17 forbids it, and Jesus said such cannot enter heaven (Mar. 10:24). Job recognized that to make riches ones confidence is to deny God (Job. 31:24-28).
Pro. 10:16. The labor of the righteous is good for him: he enjoys his food, he sleeps well, he is healthy, and his mind is not troubled. Ecc. 5:12 says, The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. The increase of the wicked is not good for him, for it but leads to sin. Luxury and licentious living often go together. Kings as a group (the wealthies in the land) were usually not godly. Ecc. 10:17 says, Happy art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
Pro. 10:17. In Pro. 10:16 labor led to life; in this verse heeding correction does. All people make mistakes and will be corrected: as children by parents (Heb. 12:9), school teachers, and other adults; later in life by employers, neighbors, mates, Gods leaders, and even God through chastening (Heb. 12:5-6). David listened to what Abigail had to say, saw the wisdom of it, and wisely changed his course (1Sa. 25:32-33). For other passages on heeding correction see Pro. 12:1; Pro. 13:18; Pro. 15:5; Pro. 15:31-32. But there will always be those who forsake reproof, and they will not prosper (Pro. 15:10). See also Pro. 1:25-26.
Pro. 10:18. Hideth and uttereth are obvious contrasts. Those who seek to hide their true feelings will lie. When asked, Whats the matter? or What have I done thats wrong? they will reply, Nothing. When asked, Why are you upset? they will say, Im not upset. See also Pro. 20:24-26. On the other hand to slander (defame) is foolish and wrong (Mat. 5:21-22). The word devil means slanderer. We must be careful not to be guilty of doing the same thing (1Ti. 3:11). We should neither hide hatreds nor utter slanders. We can only avoid such a dilemma by getting hatred out of our hearts, which we are commanded to do (Eph. 4:31).
Pro. 10:19. Ecc. 5:3 says a fools voice is known, is recognized, by its multitude of words. Jas. 1:19 says we are to be slow to speak. See also Pro. 17:28. Those who speak incessantly will surely sometime speak when they should be listening, will say some things that shouldnt be said, and will sometime speak before they think. Speak little, because for one sin which we may commit by keeping silence where it would be well to speak, we commit a hundred by speaking upon all occasions (Pinart).
Pro. 10:20. A triple contrast: tongue vs. heart; the righteous vs. the wicked; choice silver vs. little worth. The little worth of the wicked persons heart is seen in that contains no praise for God and no love for his fellowman.
Pro. 10:21. In this verse feed is set over against die. The lips of the wise disperse knowledge (Pro. 15:7). Jesus fed multitudes with His teachings. Teachers of Gods Word feed the flock of God (Act. 20:28). Paul fed many people in many places. We too can edify (build people up) with our lips (Eph. 4:29). People need this knowledge, for they will die for lacking it or for disregarding it (Hos. 4:6). Why does a mouse die in a trap or a fish die on the end of a hook? Because they didnt know what would happen by biting the bait.
Pro. 10:22. When Israel did right, God blessed them and enriched them. They were not made rich by their own power but by Gods (Deu. 8:17-18). Compare Gen. 24:35; Gen. 26:12; Psa. 37:22. Those who gain riches without regard for God both err from the faith and pierce themselves through with many sorrows (1Ti. 6:9-10). When people get money in their own way, they often resort to crookedness, and all kinds of troubles follow. Unsanctified riches bring only trouble and vexation (Pulpit Commentary). Gods riches are a blessing all the way (no sorrow therewith).
TEST QUESTIONS OVER 10:12-22
1.
Why does hatred stir up strife (Pro. 10:12)?
2.
In what way does love cover transgression (Pro. 10:12)?
3.
How does one show that he/she has discerning lips (Pro. 10:13)?
4.
What two verses extolled listening and condemned excessive talking?
5.
Why is a rich mans riches referred to as his strong city (Pro. 10:15)?
6.
What did Jesus say about those who trust in riches (Pro. 10:15)?
7.
In what ways is the labor of the righteous good for him (Pro. 10:16)?
8.
What often happens when the wicked increase in riches (Pro. 10:16)?
9.
What are some of the groups or individuals who will correct us throughout life (Pro. 10:17)?
10.
What is better than hiding hatred within or uttering slander without (Pro. 10:18)?
11.
How do we know that slander is of the devil (Pro. 10:18)?
12.
Whose voice is known by its multitude of words (Pro. 10:19)?
13.
How does Pro. 10:20 describe the worth of the righteous persons tongue?
14.
How does Pro. 10:20 describe the worth of the wicked persons heart?
15.
How can we feed people with words (Pro. 10:21)?
16.
What often happens when people obtain riches for themselves without regard for God (Pro. 10:22)?
17.
How do riches gained from Gods blessings differ (Pro. 10:22)?
Fuente: College Press Bible Study Textbook Series
(12) 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 1Pe. 4:8 and Jas. 5:20, though probably in a somewhat different sense. (See the note on the former passage.)
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
12. Stirreth up Rather, uncovers strifes, quarrels. The root of the verb has several meanings; one is, to make bare, uncover. This may have some reference to , ( tekhasseh,) covers, in the second clause: but love ( tekhasseh) covers over all transgression; that is, forgives them. Comp. Pro 17:9; Jas 5:20 ; 1Pe 4:8; 1 Corinthians 13. Tekhasseh (in the preceding verse also rendered “covereth”) is here accompanied with , ‘hal, over, which more distinctly gives it the sense named. The idea may be, that a hateful, unamiable man uncovers (makes bare, and keeps before his mind’s eye, remembers in an unforgiving spirit) the strifes or quarrels, and their causes, in which he is interested; while a loving, well disposed man covers up, forgives, and forgets transgressions against himself. The common understanding, that of concealing the faults or sins of friends, is also a good sense. It is not impossible that both meanings may be intended. These artistically arranged sentences often partake of the enigmatical.
There is something in them to exercise the mind, to think about, to guess out.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
v. 12. Hatred stirreth up strifes,
Fuente: The Popular Commentary on the Bible by Kretzmann
Pro 10:12. Love covereth all sins St. Peter appears to have had this passage in view, Ephesians 1 chap. Pro 4:8. See the note on that place, and Bishop Sherlock’s Discourses, vol. 3: disc. 6.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Pro 10:12 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 an alienation and estrangement from the person hated, that it grows to wish, and desire, and seek his hurt. I could like that exposition well if it were not Calvin’s, said Maldonat; and that reformed religion, if Luther had not had a hand in it, said George Duke of Saxony.
But love covereth all sins.
a Eusebius.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Hatred stirreth up strifes. Illustrations: Ishmael (Gen 21:9-14. Gal 1:4, Gal 1:29); Jews (Act 13:50; Act 14:2-4; Act 17:5, Act 17:13).
love covereth. The opposite action. Compare 1Co 13:4. Illustrations: Joseph (Gen 40:15. Compare Pro 45:5-8. Pro 17:9; Pro 19:11); David (2Sa 1); Paul (Philemon); Christ (Mat 26:41. Mar 16:7. Joh 20:25-27; Joh 21:15-19, &c.)
sins. Hebrew. pasha’. App-44.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Pro 10:12
Pro 10:12
“Hatred stirreth up strifes; But love covereth all transgressions.”
“1Pe 4:8 is connected with this verse by the word `covers.’ These are not direct quotations, but both passages stress the same thought. Love indeed covers a multitude of transgressions.
Pro 10:12. Hatred does not desire the fellowship of the one hated, does not wish the peace and the welfare of the one hated. Hatred must show itself, and the result is trouble and strife. Hatred will stir up strife by picking on all the small talking points that love would have overlooked (1Co 13:4). The soft answer (of love) will turn away wrath, but the grievous words (of hatred) will stir up strife (Pro 15:1). Other Scriptures on loves covering or concealing faults: Pro 17:9; 1Pe 4:8.
Fuente: Old and New Testaments Restoration Commentary
Hatred: Pro 15:18, Pro 16:27, Pro 28:25, Pro 29:22, Jam 4:1
love: Pro 17:9, 1Co 13:4, Jam 5:20, 1Pe 4:8
Reciprocal: Pro 12:16 – but Pro 26:21 – General Pro 28:13 – that 1Co 13:7 – Beareth Eph 4:31 – with
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Pro 10:12. Hatred stirreth up strife Upon every slight occasion, by filling mens minds with suspicions and surmises, whereby they imagine faults where there are none, and aggravate every small offence; but love covereth all sins Either doth not severely observe, or willingly forgives and forgets the injuries and offences of others, and so prevents contention and mischief.