Proverbs 22:11 (BSB)

He who loves a pure heart and gracious lips will have the king for a friend.

From Proverbs 22. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 22:11

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 22:11: Here is, 1. The qualification of an accomplished, a complete gentleman, that is fit to be employed in public business. He must be an honest man, a man that loves pureness of heart and hates all impurity, not only pure from all fleshly lusts, but from all deceit and dissimulation, from all selfishness and sinister designs, that takes care to approve himself a man of...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 22:11: He that loveth pureness of heart,.... Though man's heart is naturally impure, and all that is in it, the thoughts, affections, mind, conscience, understanding, and will; yet there is such a thing as pureness of heart; as where the grace of God is; where there it pure love to God, Christ, and to holy and heavenly things and persons; where there is pure and unfeigned...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 22:11: (Compare Margin). pureness of heart--and gentle, kind words win favor, even from kings.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 22:11: He that loveth pureness of heart, [for] the grace of his lips the king [shall be] his friend. (g) He shows that princes should use their familiarity, whose conscience is good, and their talk wise and godly.