¹⁹ You have profaned^(A) me among my people for a few handfuls of barley and scraps of bread.^(B) By lying to my people, who listen to lies, you have killed those who should not have died and have spared those who should not live.^(C)

Further Sayings of the Wise

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

⁸ “Do not accept a bribe,^(A) for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the innocent.

² “Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. When you give testimony in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice^(A) by siding with the crowd,^(B)

³ In their greed^(A) these teachers will exploit you^(B) with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.

¹⁸ For such people are not serving our Lord Christ,^(A) but their own appetites.^(B) By smooth talk and flattery they deceive^(C) the minds of naive people.