Proverbs 16:6
What meaning of the proverbs 16:6 in the Bible?
What does Proverbs 16:6 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil."
What does Proverbs 16:6 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil."
Verse Proverbs 16:6. _BY MERCY AND TRUTH INIQUITY IS PURGED_] This may be misunderstood, as if a man, by _showing mercy_ and _acting according_ _to truth_, could atone for his own iniquity. The Hebre...
Compare Proverbs 15:8. “By mercy and truth,” not by sacrifices and burnt-offerings, “iniquity is purged, atoned for, expiated.” The teaching is the same as that of the prophets....
CHAPTER 16 IN THE LIGHT OF THE LORD The name Jehovah (LORD) appears eleven times in this chapter of Proverbs. The Lord has the final word, for to man belong the preparations (or plans) of the heart;...
PROVERBS 16. The special feature is a group of aphorisms (Proverbs 16:10) relating to kings. The sentiments seem rather to reflect the picture of the ideal king than to indicate any particular period....
MERCY. lovingkindness, or grace. iniquity. Hebrew. _'avah._ App-44. PURGED. covered: i.e. by. propitiatory covering. THE FEAR OF THE LORD. See note on Proverbs 1:7....
_By mercy and truth iniquity is purged_ This is not a statement of the method and ground of atonement, though the Heb. word here rendered _purged_is the usual word in the O.T. for _covering_, or _aton...
CHAPTER 16 TEXT Proverbs 16:1-11 1. The plans of the heart belong to man; But the answer of the tongue is from Jehovah. 2. All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; But Jehovah weigheth t...
By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil. BY MERCY AND TRUTH INIQUITY IS PURGED (Hebrew, yªkupar (H3722)) - 'is expiated' or 'atoned for.' By mercy on...
1-9. God's control of human life....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 16 The subject of the book now begins to change. In earlier Chapter s, the main subject is the difference between wise actions and evil action...
MERCY AND TRUTH. — See above on Proverbs 3:3. Mercy and truth cannot, of course, in themselves “purge iniquity,” only so far as they are signs of the “faith which worketh by love” (Galatians 5:6), whi...
בְּ חֶ֣סֶד וֶ֭ אֱמֶת יְכֻפַּ֣ר עָוֹ֑ן וּ בְ יִרְאַ֥ת יְ֝הוָ֗ה ס֣וּר מֵ רָֽע׃...
CHAPTER 17 A JUST BALANCE "A just balance and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are His work."- Proverbs 16:11 "A false balance is an abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is H...
Verse Proverbs 16:1. A somewhat obscure proverb which recognizes that man has to exercise his own reason in making his plans, but that he is dependent on the Lord for the answer of the tongue. Dr. Per...
By (d) mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD [men] depart from evil. (d) Their upright and repenting life will be a token that their sins are forgiven....
_Mercy to the distressed, chap. iii. 3., and xiv. 22._...
Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished. By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be follow...
BY MERCY AND TRUTH INIQUITY IS PURGED,.... Or "expiated" d, and atoned for: not by the mercy and truth of men; not by alms deeds or showing mercy to the poor; nor by speaking truth and keeping promise...
By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD [men] depart from evil. Ver. 6. _By mercy and truth iniquity is purged._] Lest the proud person, bearing these dreadful threats, sbo...
_By mercy and truth iniquity is purged_ By the covenant of grace, in which mercy and truth shine so bright, even the mercy and truth of God, which meet together, and kiss each other, in Jesus Christ t...
V. 6. BY MERCY AND TRUTH INIQUITY IS PURGED, loving and faithful conduct toward one's neighbor, however, not being named as the reason for the expiation of sin, but as an invariable expression of a pe...
BY MERCY AND TRUTH; either, 1. By God's mercy or grace, and by his truth in performing his promises made to sinners in Christ. Or, 2. By men's mercy and truth, as those very words are jointly used, P...
Proverbs 16:6 mercy H2617 truth H571 provided H3722 (H8792) iniquity H5771 fear H3374 LORD H3068 departs H5493 (H8800) evil H7451 mercy - Proverbs 20:28; Psalms 85:10; Daniel 4:27;...
ALL IS IN ACCORDANCE WITH YHWH'S PURPOSES, WITH THE CONSEQUENCE THAT THE PROUD WILL BE PUNISHED, WHILST THOSE WHO FEAR YHWH WILL DEPART FROM EVIL AND FIND THAT BOTH YHWH AND THEIR ENEMIES ARE AT PEACE...
Proverbs 16:6 Value of almsgiving in the sight of God. I. God knits together in the utmost closeness our own deeds, done by His grace, with His own deeds for us. When our Lord Himself says in plain...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The safest way in which to travel is the way of the upright, a way which God makes plain to those who desire to walk in it....
Proverbs 16:1. _The preparations of the heart in man._ As the field must be plowed, and the soil prepared for the seeds, so the heart of man must be prepared for grace. Afflictions in Egypt disposed t...
_By mercy and truth iniquity is purged._ THE MISSION OF MERCY AND TRUTH Some plead for prevailing mercy, and some for prevailing justice, in jurisprudence, education, and theology. Some try to blend...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 16:1 The comparison between the PLANS of a man’s HEART (vv. Proverbs 16:1, Proverbs 16:9) and the sovereign direction of THE LORD (vv. Proverbs 16:1, Proverbs 16:9) unifies t...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 16:6. PURGED. Heb., _kaphar_, “expiated,” or “covered.” _MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 16:6_ THE PURGING OF INIQUITY I. THERE IS IN THE HUMAN HEART AND IN HUMAN LIFE THAT W...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 16:1 These are specially religions maxims, and they all contain the name Jehovah. PROVERBS 16:1 The Authorized Version makes one sentence of this verse without any contrast or a...
Shall we turn now to Proverbs 16:1-33, the sixteenth chapter and begin our study this evening. The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD (Proverbs 16:1). Go...
1 Peter 1:22; 2 Corinthians 7:1; Acts 15:9; Daniel 4:27; Ephesians 5:21; Genesis 20:11; Job 1:1; Job 28:28; John 15:2; Luke 11:41;...
By mercy — By a merciful and just and faithful frame of heart and course of life. Is purged — As they qualify a man to offer up acceptable prayers to God for the pardon of his sins. By fear — By a fil...