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Amsal 20:6

Banyak orang menyebut diri baik hati, tetapi orang yang setia, siapakah menemukannya?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Depravity of Man;   Faithfulness;   Pride;   Profession;   Self-Righteousness;   Thompson Chain Reference - Self-Justification-Self-Condemnation;   Self-Righteousness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Faithfulness;   Self-Righteousness;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Kindness;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Faith;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Banyak orang menyebut diri baik hati, tetapi orang yang setia, siapakah menemukannya?

Contextual Overview

6 Many there be that woulde be called good doers: but where shall one finde a faythfull man?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

proclaim: Proverbs 25:14, Proverbs 27:2, Matthew 6:2, Luke 18:8, Luke 18:11, Luke 18:28, Luke 22:33, 2 Corinthians 12:11

goodness: or, bounty

but: Psalms 12:1, Ecclesiastes 7:28, Jeremiah 5:1, Micah 7:2, Luke 18:8, John 1:47

Reciprocal: Proverbs 21:2 - right Proverbs 28:20 - faithful Matthew 9:14 - Why Matthew 26:33 - yet Luke 16:15 - Ye

Cross-References

Genesis 3:3
But as for the fruite of the tree which is in the myddes of the garden, God hath sayde, ye shall not eate of it, neither shal ye touche of it, lest peraduenture ye dye.
Genesis 20:6
And God sayde vnto him in a dreame: I wote well that thou dyddest it in the singlenesse of thy heart: I kept thee also that thou shuldest not sinne against me, and therefore suffred I thee not to touche her.
Genesis 20:7
Nowe therefore delyuer the man his wyfe agayne, for he is a prophete, and he shall pray for thee, that thou mayest lyue: But and yf thou delyuer her not agayne, be sure that thou shalt dye the death, [both thou] and all that thou hast.
Genesis 20:18
For the Lorde had closed vp all the wombes of the house of Abimelech, because of Abrahams wyfe.
Genesis 26:11
And so Abimelech charged al his people, saying: He that toucheth this man or his wyfe, shall dye the death.
Genesis 31:7
But your father hath deceaued me, and chaunged my wages ten tymes: but God suffred hym not to hurt me.
Genesis 35:5
And when they departed, the feare of God fel vpon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue the sonnes of Iacob.
Genesis 39:9
There is no man greater in the house then I, neither hath he kept any thyng from me but only thee, because thou art his wyfe: how then can I do euen this so great a wickednes, & sinne against God?
Exodus 34:24
For I wyll cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy coastes: neyther shall any man desyre thy lande, when thou shalt go vp to appeare before the Lorde thy God thryse in a yere.
Leviticus 6:2
If a soule sinne and trespasse agaynst the Lorde, and denie vnto his neyghbour that which was taken him to kepe, or that was put into his hands, or doth violent robberie or wrong vnto his neyghbour,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Most men will proclaim everyone his own goodness,.... As the Pharisee did, in Luke 18:11; and as the Pharisees in common did; who did all their works to be seen of men, and made clean the outside of the cup and platter; and were very careful to appear outwardly righteous to men, Matthew 23:5. And indeed this is the general cast of men; everyone is proclaiming his goodness to others, and would be thought to be good men; and cannot be easy with doing a good action, unless it is known, and particularly acts of beneficence and alms deeds; and are like the Pharisees, who, on such occasions, sounded a trumpet before them, Matthew 6:2. And the word may be rendered, "his mercy" b, or his kindness to the poor: the Targum renders it,

"many of the children of men are called merciful men;''

and so the Vulgate Latin version; and they like to be so called and accounted, whether they are so or not;

but a faithful man who can find? who answers to the character he gives of himself, or others upon his own representation give him; who is as good as his word, and, having promised assistance and relief, gives it; and who, having boasted that he has done a kindness to such an one and such an one, does the same likewise to another when applied to; or who sticks to his friend, and does not forsake him in his adversity, but supports and supplies him whom he knew in prosperity; it is hard and rare to find such a man; see Psalms 12:1. Or, though every man is talking of his good works, and boasting of his goodness, it is difficult to find an Israelite indeed, in whom the true grace of God is.

b חסדו "misericordiam suam", Pagninus, so some in Vatablus; "unius cujusque misericordiam", Mercerus, Gejerus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Goodness - With the special sense of bounty, beneficence. Contrast promise and performance. People boast of their liberality, yet we look in vain for the fulfillment of actual obligations.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 20:6. Most men will proclaimMany men merciful ben clepid: a feithful man forsoth, who schal finde? - Old MS. Bible.


 
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