Proverbs 18:17
The man who first puts his cause before the judge seems to be in the right; but then his neighbour comes and puts his cause in its true light.
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Proverbs 18:17
The man who first puts his cause before the judge seems to be in the right; but then his neighbour comes and puts his cause in its true light.
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Proverbs 18:8
The words of one who says evil of his neighbour secretly are like sweet food, and go down into the inner parts of the stomach.
Proverbs 18:18
The decision of chance puts an end to argument, parting the strong.
Proverbs 18:19
A brother wounded is like a strong town, and violent acts are like a locked tower.
Proverbs 18:20
With the fruit of a man's mouth his stomach will be full; the produce of his lips will be his in full measure.
Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and those to whom it is dear will have its fruit for their food.
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Proverbs 28:11
The man of wealth seems to himself to be wise, but the poor man who has sense has a low opinion of him.
Job 32:9
It is not the old who are wise, and those who are full of years have not the knowledge of what is right.
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Proverbs 18:13
To give an answer before hearing is a foolish thing and a cause of shame.
Acts 25:16
To whom I gave answer that it is not the Roman way to give a man up, till he has been face to face with those who are attacking him, and has had a chance to give an answer to the statements made against him.
Proverbs 18:2
A foolish man has no pleasure in good sense, but only to let what is in his heart come to light.
John 7:51
Is a man judged by our law before it has given him a hearing and has knowledge of what he has done?
Acts 26:1
And Agrippa said to Paul, You may put your cause before us. Then Paul, stretching out his hand, made his answer, saying:
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2 Samuel 16:1
And when David had gone a little way past the top of the slope, Ziba, the servant of Mephibosheth, came to him, with two asses on which were two hundred cakes of bread and a hundred stems of dry grapes and a hundred summer fruits and a skin of wine.
2 Samuel 16:2
And David said to Ziba, What is your reason for this? And Ziba said, The asses are for the use of the king's people, and the bread and the fruit are food for the young men; and the wine is for drink for those who are overcome by weariness in the waste land.
2 Samuel 16:3
And the king said, And where is your master's son? And Ziba said, He is still at Jerusalem: for he said, Today Israel will give back to me the kingdom of my father.
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Proverbs 18:16
A man's offering makes room for him, letting him come before great men.
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Ezekiel 3:20
Again, when an upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, and I put a cause of falling in his way, death will overtake him: because you have given him no word of his danger, death will overtake him in his evil-doing, and there will be no memory of the upright acts which he has done; but I will make you responsible for his blood.
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