Proverbs 20:6
Good News Translation
Everyone talks about how loyal and faithful he is, but just try to find someone who really is!

New Revised Standard Version
Many proclaim themselves loyal, but who can find one worthy of trust?

Contemporary English Version
There are many who say, "You can trust me!" But can they be trusted?

New American Bible
Many say, “My loyal friend,” but who can find someone worthy of trust?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Many men are called merciful: but who shall find a faithful man?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Many men are called merciful: but who shall find a faithful man?

proclaim

Proverbs 25:14 As clouds, and wind, when no rain followeth, so is the man that boasteth, and doth not fulfil his promises.

Proverbs 27:2 Let another praise thee, and not thy own mouth: a stranger, and not thy own lips.

Matthew 6:2 Therefore when thou dost an alms-deed, sound not a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be honoured by men. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward.

Luke 18:8,11,28 I say to you that he will quickly revenge them. But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth? . . .

Luke 22:23 And they began to inquire among themselves, which of them it was that should do this thing.

2 Corinthians 12:11 I am become foolish. You have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended by you. For I have no way come short of them that are above measure apostles, although I be nothing.

goodness

Psalm 12:1 Unto the end: for the octave, a psalm for David. [2] Save me, O Lord, for there is now no saint: truths are decayed from among the children of men.

Ecclesiastes 7:28 Which yet my soul seeketh, and I have not found it. One man among a thousand I have found, a woman among them all I have not found.

Jeremiah 5:1 Go about through the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and consider, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can find a man that executeth judgment, and seeketh faith: and I will be merciful unto it.

Micah 7:2 The holy man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood, every one hunteth his brother to death.

Luke 18:8 I say to you that he will quickly revenge them. But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?

John 1:47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and he saith of him: Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile.

Context
Wine is a Mocker
5Counsel in the heart of a man is like deep water: but a wise man will draw it out. 6Many men are called merciful: but who shall find a faithful man?7The just that walketh in his simplicity, shall leave behind him blessed children.…
Cross References
Matthew 6:2
Therefore when thou dost an alms-deed, sound not a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be honoured by men. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward.

Luke 18:8
I say to you that he will quickly revenge them. But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?

Luke 18:11
The Pharisee standing, prayed thus with himself: O God, I give thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, as also is this publican.

Psalm 12:1
Unto the end: for the octave, a psalm for David. [2] Save me, O Lord, for there is now no saint: truths are decayed from among the children of men.

Proverbs 20:5
Counsel in the heart of a man is like deep water: but a wise man will draw it out.

Proverbs 25:14
As clouds, and wind, when no rain followeth, so is the man that boasteth, and doth not fulfil his promises.

Proverbs 20:5
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