¹⁶ Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

¹⁰ They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

⁸ Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

⁷ Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?

⁴⁵ And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.

⁵ Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.

⁸ And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the Lord: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

⁵ To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.

⁷ The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.

¹⁷ And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?

¹⁸ And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and thou hast followed Baalim.