Focused Passage

Proverbs 17:9

Wisdom in Household Peace, Tested Hearts, Just Speech, and Relational Restraint

The chapter moves through household peace, divine heart-testing, speech and poverty, family honor, bribery and love, rebuke and folly, quarrels and justice, friendship and surety, conflict and grief, crooked justice, wandering folly, and restrained speech.

Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources

9 Whoever conceals an offense promotes love, but he who brings it up separates friends.

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Verse 9

Cross-references

1 Peter 4:8 Classic cross-references Proverbs 10:12 Classic cross-references 1 Corinthians 13:4 Classic cross-references Proverbs 16:28 Classic cross-references Psalms 32:1 Classic cross-references

Original words

Whoever conceals מְֽכַסֶּה־ H3680 Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine singular an offense פֶּ֭שַׁע H6588 Noun - masculine singular promotes מְבַקֵּ֣שׁ H1245 Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine singular love אַהֲבָ֑ה H160 Noun - feminine singular but he who brings it up וְשֹׁנֶ֥ה H8138 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular . . . בְ֝דָבָ֗ר H1697 Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular separates מַפְרִ֥יד H6504 Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular friends אַלּֽוּף׃ H441 Noun - masculine singular

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