28 Do not be a (A)witness against your neighbor for no reason,
And (B)do not deceive with your lips.

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28 Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without reason;
    don’t deceive with your lips.

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(A)Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity,
Than a person who is [a]crooked, though he is rich.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 28:6 Lit perverse of two ways

Better to be poor and walk in innocence
    than to be on crooked paths and wealthy.

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13 One who (A)conceals his wrongdoings will not prosper,
But one who (B)confesses and abandons them will find compassion.

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13 Those who hide their sins won’t succeed,
    but those who confess and give them up will receive mercy.

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23 One who (A)rebukes a person will afterward find more favor
Than one who (B)flatters with the tongue.

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23 Those who correct someone will, in the end, find more favor
    than those with flattering tongues.

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