(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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(A)Let a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness;
    let him rebuke me—it is oil for my head;
    let my head not refuse it.
Yet (B)my prayer is continually against their evil deeds.

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18 Poverty and disgrace come to him who (A)ignores instruction,
    (B)but whoever (C)heeds reproof is honored.

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Do not speak in the hearing of a fool,
    for he will despise the good sense of your words.

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

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(A)“Do not give (B)dogs what is holy, and do not throw your (C)pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.

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29 (A)He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck,
    will suddenly be (B)broken (C)beyond healing.

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23 Whoever (A)rebukes a man will afterward find more favor
    than (B)he who flatters with his tongue.

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17 (A)“You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but (B)you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you (C)incur sin because of him.

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For it is impossible, in the case of those (A)who have once been enlightened, who have tasted (B)the heavenly gift, and (C)have shared in the Holy Spirit, and (D)have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, and (E)then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since (F)they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt. For (G)land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it, and produces a crop useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God. But (H)if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, (I)and its end is to be burned.

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14 Let them alone; (A)they are blind guides.[a] And (B)if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 15:14 Some manuscripts add of the blind

15 And count (A)the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as (B)our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you (C)according to the wisdom given him, 16 as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. (D)There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, (E)as they do the other Scriptures.

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Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, (A)‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul. And I gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your arms and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. And if this were too little, I would add to you as much more. (B)Why have you despised the word of the Lord, (C)to do what is evil in his sight? (D)You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and (E)have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. 10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’ 11 Thus says the Lord, ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house. And I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. 12 For you did it secretly, (F)but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.’” 13 (G)David said to Nathan, (H)“I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, (I)“The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die. 14 Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly (J)scorned the Lord,[a] the child who is born to you shall die.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 12:14 Masoretic Text the enemies of the Lord; Dead Sea Scroll the word of the Lord

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