12 (A)A scoffer (B)does not like to be reproved;
    he will not go to the wise.

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12 Mockers resent correction,(A)
    so they avoid the wise.

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10 (A)They hate him who reproves (B)in the gate,
    and they (C)abhor him who speaks the truth.

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10 There are those who hate the one who upholds justice in court(A)
    and detest the one who tells the truth.(B)

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14 They say to God, (A)‘Depart from us!
    We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.

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14 Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone!(A)
    We have no desire to know your ways.(B)

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Whoever corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse,
    and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury.
(A)Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you;
    (B)reprove a wise man, and he will love you.

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Whoever corrects a mocker invites insults;
    whoever rebukes the wicked incurs abuse.(A)
Do not rebuke mockers(B) or they will hate you;
    rebuke the wise and they will love you.(C)

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(A)For the time is coming when people will not endure (B)sound[a] teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Timothy 4:3 Or healthy

For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine.(A) Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.(B)

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The world cannot hate you, but (A)it hates me because I testify about it that (B)its works are evil.

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The world cannot hate you, but it hates me(A) because I testify that its works are evil.(B)

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18 (A)Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not (B)believed in the name of the only Son of God. 19 (C)And this is the judgment: (D)the light has come into the world, and (E)people loved the darkness rather than the light because (F)their works were evil. 20 (G)For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, (H)lest his works should be exposed. 21 But whoever (I)does what is true (J)comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”

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18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned,(A) but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.(B) 19 This is the verdict: Light(C) has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.(D) 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.(E) 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.

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10 There is (A)severe discipline for him who forsakes the way;
    (B)whoever hates reproof will die.

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10 Stern discipline awaits anyone who leaves the path;
    the one who hates correction will die.(A)

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And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the Lord, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but always evil.” And Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say so.”

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The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, “There is still one prophet through whom we can inquire of the Lord, but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good about me, but always bad. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.”

“The king should not say such a thing,” Jehoshaphat replied.

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