By loving devotion and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the LORD one turns aside from evil.
By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD [men] depart from evil. (d) Their upright and repenting life will be a token that their sins are forgiven.
Pro 16:6 6 By love and truth is iniquity expiated, And through the fear of Jahve one escapes from evil - literally, there comes (as the effect of it) the escaping of evil (סוּר, n. actionis, as Pro 13:19), or rather, since the evil here comes into view as to its consequences (Pro 14:27; Pro 15:24), this, that one escapes evil.
By mercy and truth--that is, God's (Psa 85:10); He effects the atonement, or covering of sin; and the principles of true piety incline men to depart from evil; or, "mercy" and "truth" may be man's, indicative of the gracious tempers which work instrumentally in procuring pardon. purged--expiated (as in Lev 16:33; Isa 27:9, Hebrew).