Acts 14:24-28

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Paul and Barnabas Return to Antioch in Syria

²⁴Then they passed through Pisidia and came to Pamphylia. ²⁵And when they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia, ²⁶and from there they sailed to Antioch, ^(A)where they had been ^(B)commended to the grace of God for the work that they had fulfilled. ²⁷And when they arrived and gathered the church together, ^(C)they declared all that God had done with them, and ^(D)how he had ^(E)opened ^(F)a door of faith to the Gentiles. ²⁸And they remained no little time with the disciples.

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Proverbs 17:20-28

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²⁰^(A)A man of crooked heart does not discover good,
    and one with a dishonest tongue falls into calamity.
²¹He who ^(B)sires a fool gets himself sorrow,
    and the father of a fool has no joy.
²²^(C)A joyful heart is good medicine,
    but a crushed spirit ^(D)dries up the bones.
²³The wicked accepts ^(E)a bribe in secret^[a]
    to ^(F)pervert the ways of justice.
²⁴^(G)The discerning sets his face toward wisdom,
    but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.
²⁵^(H)A foolish son is a grief to his father
    ^(I)and bitterness to ^(J)her who bore him.
²⁶^(K)To impose a fine on a righteous man is not good,
    nor to strike the noble for their uprightness.
²⁷Whoever ^(L)restrains his words has knowledge,
    and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.
²⁸Even a fool ^(M)who keeps silent is considered wise;
    when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.