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Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you.
    Bind them around your neck.
    Write them on the tablet of your heart.
So you will find favor,
    and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

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Let not kindness and truth forsake thee:
Bind them about thy neck;
Write them upon the tablet of thy heart:
So shalt thou find favor and [a]good understanding
In the sight of God and man.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 3:4 Or, good repute

22 A good name is more desirable than great riches,
    and loving favor is better than silver and gold.

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22 A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches,
And [a]loving favor rather than silver and gold.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 22:1 Or, favor is better than etc.

Debate your case with your neighbor,
    and don’t betray the confidence of another,
10     lest one who hears it put you to shame,
    and your bad reputation never depart.

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Debate thy cause with thy neighbor himself,
[a]And disclose not the secret of another;
10 Lest he that heareth it revile thee,
And thine infamy turn not away.

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  1. Proverbs 25:9 Or, But