Proverbs 18:17
He who pleads his cause first seems right— until another comes and questions him.
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Proverbs 18:17
He who pleads his cause first seems right— until another comes and questions him.
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Proverbs 18:8
The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.
Proverbs 18:18
The lot settles disputes, and keeps strong ones apart.
Proverbs 18:19
A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city. Disputes are like the bars of a fortress.
Proverbs 18:20
A man’s stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth. With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied.
Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.
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Proverbs 28:11
The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him.
Job 32:9
It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.
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Proverbs 18:13
He who answers before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.
Acts 25:16
I answered them that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man to destruction before the accused has met the accusers face to face and has had opportunity to make his defense concerning the matter laid against him.
Proverbs 18:2
A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.
John 7:51
“Does our law judge a man unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?”
Acts 26:1
Agrippa said to Paul, “You may speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defense.
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2 Samuel 16:1
When David was a little past the top, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him with a couple of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, and one hundred clusters of raisins, and one hundred summer fruits, and a container of wine.
2 Samuel 16:2
The king said to Ziba, “What do you mean by these?” Ziba said, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that those who are faint in the wilderness may drink.”
2 Samuel 16:3
The king said, “Where is your master’s son?” Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he is staying in Jerusalem; for he said, ‘Today the house of Israel will restore me the kingdom of my father.’ ”
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Proverbs 18:16
A man’s gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.
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Ezekiel 3:20
“Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand.
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