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

⁶ Let your speech always ^(A)be gracious, ^(B)seasoned with salt, ^(C)so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

¹³ But ^(A)exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by ^(B)the deceitfulness of sin.

^28 (A)bless those who curse you, ^(B)pray for those who abuse you.