"A Righteous Life", Bishop Charles Stores, Princeton, W. VA.

Proverbs 12

1 WHOSO loveth instruction, loveth knowledge:*§ but he that hateth reproof, is brutish.
2 A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
3 A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the§ root of the righteous shall not be moved.
4 ║A virtuous women is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed, is as rottenness in his bones.
5 The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are* deceit.
6 †The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
7 ‡The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
8 A man shall be commended according to his wisdom; but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.
9 He that is despised and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.
10 §§A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
11 ║║He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.
12 The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.
13 **The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
14 ††A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth, and the recompense of a man’s hands shall he rendered unto him.
15 ‡‡The way of a fool is right in his own eyes; but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.
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John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old and New Testament: Translation (Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software, 2012), Pr 12:1–28.