Do not speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

A man who hardens his neck when reproved shall be suddenly broken, and there will be no healing.

But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, among those who spied out the land, tore their clothes;

If Jehovah has delighted in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us; a land flowing with milk and honey.

And all the congregation intended to stone them with stones. And the glory of Jehovah appeared in the tent of meeting before all the children of Israel.

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of Jehovah; but I hate him, because he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so!

Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces.

Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into the ditch.

For it is impossible for those who at one time were given understanding, and have tasted the Heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit,

and also turn aside, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and expose Him to public disgrace.

but if it bears thorns and briars, it is unfit and near to being cursed; its end is to be burned up.

Poverty and shame shall be to him who ignores correction, but he who heeds reproof shall be honored.

He who rebukes a man shall afterwards find more favor than he who flatters with the tongue.

You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall reprove to correct your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

And Nathan said to David, You are the man! Thus says Jehovah the God of Israel: I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.

Why have you despised the Word of Jehovah, to do evil in His eyes? You have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword; you have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the sons of Ammon.

Thus says Jehovah: Behold, I will raise up evil against you from 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 eyes of the sun.

And David said to Nathan, I have sinned against Jehovah. And Nathan said to David, Jehovah also has put away your sin; you shall not die.

And they reported to the king, saying, Behold, Nathan the prophet. And when he came in before the king, he bowed down to the king with his face to the ground.

And King David said, Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And they came in before the king.

Let the righteous strike me; it shall be a kindness. And let him rebuke me; it shall be as choicest oil; let my head not refuse it. For still my prayer is against the evil.

Now when Peter had come to Antioch, I withstood him to his face, because he was to be blamed;

And the rest of the Jews also played the hypocrite with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.

and consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you,

as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the unlearned and unstable twist, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.