不要责备亵慢人，恐怕他恨你；要责备智慧人，他必爱你。

不要责备傲慢人，免得他恨你；要责备智慧人，他必爱你。

不要责备傲慢人，免得他恨你；要责备智慧人，他必爱你。

不要责备嘲讽者，免得他恨你；要责备智者，他必爱你。

你不要责备好讥笑人的，免得他恨你；要责备智慧人，他必爱你。

不要责备讥讽者，免得他恨你；要责备智慧人，他必爱你。

不要責備褻慢人，恐怕他恨你；要責備智慧人，他必愛你。

不要責備傲慢人，免得他恨你；要責備智慧人，他必愛你。

不要責備傲慢人，免得他恨你；要責備智慧人，他必愛你。

不要責備嘲諷者，免得他恨你；要責備智者，他必愛你。

你不要責備好譏笑人的，免得他恨你；要責備智慧人，他必愛你。

不要勸責褻慢人，免得他恨你：要勸責智慧人，他必愛你。

不要責備譏諷者，免得他恨你；要責備智慧人，他必愛你。

勿責侮慢者、恐其憾爾、宜責智慧者、彼乃愛爾、

規諫侮慢者、必為所憾、勸勉智慧者、可蒙其愛。

勿規勸侮慢者、恐彼憾爾、若規勸智慧者、則必愛爾、

Do not rebuke mockers or they will hate you; rebuke the wise and they will love you.

Don’t warn those who make fun of others, or they will hate you. Warn those who are wise, and they will love you.

Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you.

So don’t bother correcting mockers; they will only hate you. But correct the wise, and they will love you.

Don’t rebuke a mocker, or he will hate you; rebuke the wise, and he will love you.

Do not rebuke a scoffer, or he will hate you; Rebuke a wise person and he will love you.

Do not correct a scoffer, lest he hate you; Rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.

Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate thee: Reprove a wise man, and he will love thee.

Don’t rebuke a mocker, or he will hate you; rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.

Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

Do not reprove a mocker or he will hate you; reprove a wise person and he will love you.

Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise person, and he will love you.

Let a righteous man strike me— that is a kindness; let him rebuke me— that is oil on my head. My head will not refuse it, for my prayer will still be against the deeds of evildoers. (niv)

Whoever disregards discipline comes to poverty and shame, but whoever heeds correction is honored. (niv)

“ Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces. (niv)

Mockers resent correction, so they avoid the wise. (niv)

Do not speak to fools, for they will scorn your prudent words. (niv)

It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit,who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming ageand who have fallen away, to be brought back to repentance. To their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace.Land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is farmed receives the blessing of God.But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless and is in danger of being cursed. In the end it will be burned. (niv)

Whoever remains stiff- necked after many rebukes will suddenly be destroyed— without remedy. (niv)

“‘ Do not hate a fellow Israelite in your heart. Rebuke your neighbor frankly so you will not share in their guilt. (niv)

Whoever rebukes a person will in the end gain favor rather than one who has a flattering tongue. (niv)

Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him.He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction. (niv)

Then Nathan said to David,“ You are the man! This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says:‘ I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.I gave your master’s house to you, and your master’s wives into your arms. I gave you all Israel and Judah. And if all this had been too little, I would have given you even more.Why did you despise the word of the Lord by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’“ This is what the Lord says:‘ Out of your own household I am going to bring calamity on you. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will sleep with your wives in broad daylight.You did it in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.’”Then David said to Nathan,“ I have sinned against the Lord.” Nathan replied,“ The Lord has taken away your sin. You are not going to die.But because by doing this you have shown utter contempt for the Lord, the son born to you will die.” (niv)

Leave them; they are blind guides. If the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.” (niv)

Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had explored the land, tore their clothesand said to the entire Israelite assembly,“ The land we passed through and explored is exceedingly good.If the Lord is pleased with us, he will lead us into that land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and will give it to us.Only do not rebel against the Lord. And do not be afraid of the people of the land, because we will devour them. Their protection is gone, but the Lord is with us. Do not be afraid of them.”But the whole assembly talked about stoning them. Then the glory of the Lord appeared at the tent of meeting to all the Israelites. (niv)

And the king was told,“ Nathan the prophet is here.” So he went before the king and bowed with his face to the ground. (niv)

King David said,“ Call in Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet and Benaiah son of Jehoiada.” When they came before the king, (niv)

The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat,“ There is still one prophet through whom we can inquire of the Lord, but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good about me, but always bad. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.”“ The king should not say such a thing,” Jehoshaphat replied. (niv)

When Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group.The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray.When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all,“ You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs? (niv)