¹⁹ You have profaned me among my people ^(A)for handfuls of barley ^(B)and for pieces of bread, putting to death souls who should not die and keeping alive souls who should not live, by your lying to my people, who listen to lies.

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²³ These also are sayings of ^(A)the wise.

^8 (A)And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.

² You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice,

³ And ^(A)in their greed they will exploit you ^(B)with false words. ^(C)Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

¹⁸ For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but ^(A)their own appetites,^[a] and ^(B)by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.