Proverbs 14:9

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Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.

"How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?

Doing wrong is like a joke to a fool, but wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding.

Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death

This is the way of an adulteress: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, "I have done no wrong."

how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water!

What man is like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water,

They said to you, "In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions."

So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.

For whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the LORD,

A good man obtains favor from the LORD, but a man of evil devices he condemns.

Good sense wins favor, but the way of the treacherous is their ruin.

For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Doing wrong is like a joke to a fool, but wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding.