Proverbs 12:5
The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
Treasury of Scripture

Proverbs 11:23 The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

Proverbs 24:9 The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.

Psalm 119:15 I will meditate in your precepts, and have respect to your ways.

Psalm 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him...

Jeremiah 4:14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?

counsels

Psalm 12:2,3 They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak...

Psalm 36:2-4 For he flatters himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful...

Psalm 41:6,7 And if he come to see me, he speaks vanity: his heart gathers iniquity to itself; when he goes abroad, he tells it...

Psalm 140:1-3 Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man...

Matthew 2:3-8,16 When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him...

Matthew 26:4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him.

1 Corinthians 4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness...

2 Corinthians 4:2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully...



Context
Loving Discipline and Knowledge

1Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge: but he that hates reproof is brutish. 2A good man obtains favor of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn. 3A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved. 4A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that makes ashamed is as rottenness in his bones. 5The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit. 6The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. 7The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand. 8A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised. 9He that is despised, and has a servant, is better than he that honors himself, and lacks bread. 10A righteous man regards the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. 11He that tills his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that follows vain persons is void of understanding. 12The wicked desires the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yields fruit. 13The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble. 14A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompense of a man's hands shall be rendered to him. 15The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that listens to counsel is wise. 16A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covers shame. 17He that speaks truth shows forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit. 18There is that speaks like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health. 19The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment. 20Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy. 21There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief. 22Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight. 23A prudent man conceals knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaims foolishness. 24The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute. 25Heaviness in the heart of man makes it stoop: but a good word makes it glad. 26The righteous is more excellent than his neighbor: but the way of the wicked seduces them. 27The slothful man roasts not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious. 28In the way of righteousness is life: and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
The thoughts of the righteous are just; But the counsels of the wicked are deceit.


Douay-Rheims Bible
The thoughts of the just are judgments: and the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.


Darby Bible Translation
The thoughts of the righteous are right; the counsels of the wicked are deceit.


King James Bible
The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.


Young's Literal Translation
The thoughts of the righteous are justice, The counsels of the wicked -- deceit.


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