Proverbs 12:5
“The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.”
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Proverbs 12:5 Context
3A man shall not bee established by wickednesse: but the roote of the righteous shall not be mooued. 4A vertuous woman is a crowne to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed, is as rottennesse 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 waite for blood: but the mouth of the vpright shall deliuer them. 7The wicked are ouerthrowen, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
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The thoughts of the righteous [are] right: [but] the counsels of the wicked [are] deceit.
- King James Version
The thoughts of the righteous are just, {But} the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.
- New American Standard Version (1995)