²² Your heart knows that ^(A)many times you yourself have cursed others.

⁹ With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people ^(A)who are made in the likeness of God.

⁷ And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, ^(A)“Let him who is without sin among you ^(B)be the first to throw a stone at her.” ⁸ And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground. ⁹ But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

³² Then his master summoned him and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me. ^33 (A)And should not you have had mercy on your fellow servant, as I had mercy on you?’ ^34 (B)And in anger his master delivered him to the jailers,^{[a] (C)}until he should pay all his debt. ^35 (D)So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother ^(E)from your heart.”

¹⁹ For out of the heart come ^(A)evil thoughts, ^(B)murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, ^(C)slander.

⁴⁴ The king also said to Shimei, “You know in your own heart ^(A)all the harm that you did to David my father. So the Lord will ^(B)bring back your harm on your own head.