Commentary on Selected Proverbs

                                               Proverbs 10:12 (KJB)

This verse happens to be particularly significant to the fact that God will provide some form of salvation for the whole human race. Since "God is Love," then this verse can only be about God's Love since only God's Love can cover all sins. I John 4:8 (KJB). Since love can never fail, then certainly God's Love can never fail. I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB).

The word "cover" in the Old Testament sometimes meant sins forgiven and remitted. Leviticus 16:13; Psalm 32:1 (KJB). When the Apostle Peter quoted Proverbs 10:12, he used the word "the" to state that love will "cover the multitude of sins." I Peter 4:8 (KJB). By His use of the word "the," the Holy Spirit had to have meant the entire set of all sins that have ever been committed. Neither verse states that God will cover only some sins. If God should ever cast His living humans that He loves into an eternal lake of fire, then their sins would certainly not be covered and forgiven. But God's Word clearly states that God will cast only dead humans into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15 (KJB).

Since God saves only some humans by His grace, then He must have another form of salvation for the rest of humanity since He will cover and forgive all sins ever committed. God will reveal His lesser form of salvation when Christ visits the regions of death in the end of the world, and He will cause all of His living humans confined there to repent and believe in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Christ will then use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve all of their beings in order to separate their repentant, living natures from their dead and evil natures so that He can recreate their living natures to live forever on His new earth, and He will cast their separated, dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Matthew 13:36-43; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).

Jesus taught that not only could He save by His grace those who believe in Him while still alive in the flesh, but He could also save those who are dead; that is, confined to the regions of death, when they believe in Him. John 11:25-26 (KJB). Christ proved that He could do both when He raised Lazarus from the dead. John 11:38-44 (KJB).