21 Do not take to heart all the things that people say, lest you hear (A)your servant cursing you.

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10 (A)Do not slander a servant to his master,
    (B)lest he curse you, and you be held guilty.

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21 who by a word make a man out to be an offender,
    and (A)lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate,
    and with an empty plea (B)turn aside him who is in the right.

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10 But the king said, (A)“What have I to do with you, (B)you sons of Zeruiah? If he is cursing because the Lord has said to him, ‘Curse David,’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’”

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or rude. It (A)does not insist on its own way; it (B)is not irritable or resentful;[a] it (C)does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but (D)rejoices with the truth. (E)Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, (F)endures all things.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 13:5 Greek irritable and does not count up wrongdoing

19 and said to the king, (A)“Let not my lord hold me guilty or remember how your servant (B)did wrong on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. Do not let the king take it to heart.

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