Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs. New Living Translation Hatred stirs up quarrels, but love makes up for all offenses. English Standard Version Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses. Berean Standard Bible Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions. King James Bible Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins. New King James Version Hatred stirs up strife, But love covers all sins. New American Standard Bible Hatred stirs up strife, But love covers all offenses. NASB 1995 Hatred stirs up strife, But love covers all transgressions. NASB 1977 Hatred stirs up strife, But love covers all transgressions. Legacy Standard Bible Hatred stirs up strife, But love covers all transgressions. Amplified Bible Hatred stirs up strife, But love covers and overwhelms all transgressions [forgiving and overlooking another’s faults]. Christian Standard Bible Hatred stirs up conflicts, but love covers all offenses. Holman Christian Standard Bible Hatred stirs up conflicts, but love covers all offenses. American Standard Version Hatred stirreth up strifes; But love covereth all transgressions. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Hatred stirs up judgment, and shame will cover all the evil ones. Brenton Septuagint Translation Hatred stirs up strife; but affection covers all that do not love strife. Contemporary English Version Hatred stirs up trouble; love overlooks the wrongs that others do. Douay-Rheims Bible Hatred stirreth up strifes: and charity covereth all sins. English Revised Version Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all transgressions. GOD'S WORD® Translation Hate starts quarrels, but love covers every wrong. Good News Translation Hate stirs up trouble, but love forgives all offenses. International Standard Version Hatred awakens contention, but love covers all transgressions. JPS Tanakh 1917 Hatred stirreth up strifes; But love covereth all transgressions. Literal Standard Version Hatred awakens contentions, | And love covers over all transgressions. Majority Standard Bible Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions. New American Bible Hatred stirs up disputes, but love covers all offenses. NET Bible Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions. New Revised Standard Version Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses. New Heart English Bible Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs. Webster's Bible Translation Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins. World English Bible Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs. Young's Literal Translation Hatred awaketh contentions, And over all transgressions love covereth. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Solomon's Proverbs: The Wise Son…11The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence. 12Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions. 13Wisdom is found on the lips of the discerning, but a rod is for the back of him who lacks judgment.… Cross References 1 Corinthians 13:4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. James 5:20 consider this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and cover over a multitude of sins. 1 Peter 4:8 Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. Proverbs 17:9 Whoever conceals an offense promotes love, but he who brings it up separates friends. Proverbs 30:33 For as the churning of milk yields butter, and the twisting of the nose draws blood, so the stirring of anger brings forth strife." Treasury of Scripture Hatred stirs up strifes: but love covers all sins. hatred Proverbs 15:18 A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife. Proverbs 16:27 An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire. Proverbs 28:25 He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat. love Proverbs 17:9 He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends. 1 Corinthians 13:4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, James 5:20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins. Jump to Previous Acts Awaketh Cause Contentions Covered Covereth Covers Dissension Errors Hate Hatred Love Offenses Sins Stirreth Stirs Strife Strifes Transgressions Violent WrongsJump to Next Acts Awaketh Cause Contentions Covered Covereth Covers Dissension Errors Hate Hatred Love Offenses Sins Stirreth Stirs Strife Strifes Transgressions Violent WrongsProverbs 10 1. Proverbs of Solomon: observations of moral virtues, and their contrary vices(12) Hatred stirreth up strifes . . .--Hatred rakes up again old feuds which have slumbered, but love covers up and refuses to look at any wrong done to it. A similar expression occurs in 1Peter 4:8 and James 5:20, though probably in a somewhat different sense. (See the note on the former passage.)Verse 12. - Hatred stirreth up strife (Proverbs 6:14). Love covereth all sins (Proverbs 17:9). The reference is primarily to the blood feud, the existence of which led to the establishment of the cities of refuge. Hatred keeps alive the old feeling of revenge, and seeks opportunities of satisfying it; but love puts aside, forgets and forgives all offences against itself. This sentiment comes very near the great Christian principle, "Love covereth a multitude of sins" (1 Peter 4:8; comp. 1 Corinthians 13:4; James 5:20). The Talmud pronounces, "To love a thing makes the eye blind, the ear deaf;" and the Arab says, "Love is the companion of blindness." Septuagint, "Love (φιλία) covereth all those who love not strife." Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Hatredשִׂ֭נְאָה (nə·’āh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 8135: Hating, hatred stirs up תְּעוֹרֵ֣ר (tə·‘ō·w·rêr) Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 5782: To rouse oneself, awake dissension, מְדָנִ֑ים (mə·ḏā·nîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 4090: A contest, quarrel but love אַהֲבָֽה׃ (’a·hă·ḇāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 160: Love (noun) covers תְּכַסֶּ֥ה (tə·ḵas·seh) Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 3680: To plump, fill up hollows, to cover all כָּל־ (kāl-) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every transgressions. פְּ֝שָׁעִ֗ים (pə·šā·‘îm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 6588: Transgression Links Proverbs 10:12 NIVProverbs 10:12 NLT Proverbs 10:12 ESV Proverbs 10:12 NASB Proverbs 10:12 KJV Proverbs 10:12 BibleApps.com Proverbs 10:12 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 10:12 Chinese Bible Proverbs 10:12 French Bible Proverbs 10:12 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 10:12 Hatred stirs up strife but love covers (Prov. 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