Proverbs 15:12–13

¹⁰They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

¹⁴Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

³For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

⁷He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.

⁸Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

⁷The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.

⁷And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, by whom we may inquire of the Lord: but I hate him; for he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

¹⁸¶ He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

¹⁹And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

²⁰For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

²¹But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

¹⁰Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.

²²A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

¹LET not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

²⁵Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.

¹⁴The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

¹⁵All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.

¹⁰For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

⁷So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.

¹²For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

²Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,