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Proverbs 17:14-16
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14 It is hard to stop a quarrel once it starts,[a] so don’t let it begin.

15 The Lord despises those who say that bad is good and good is bad.

16 It is senseless to pay tuition to educate a rebel who has no heart for truth.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 17:14 It is hard to stop a quarrel once it starts, literally, “as when one lets out water.”
  2. Proverbs 17:16 no heart for truth, literally, “no heart.”
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