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 simplicity? And [how long] will scoffers delight in their scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?

[It is] like a sport for a fool to do wrong, wisdom for a person of understanding.

Like a maniac who shoots firebrands, arrows, and death,

This is the way of a woman committing adultery: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says "I have not done wrong."

{How much less} he who is abominable and corrupt, a man drinking wickedness like water.

What man [is] like Job, who drinks scorn like water?

for they said to you, "In the end time there will be scoffers following according to their own ungodly desires."

And you shall find favor and good sense in the eyes of God and humankind.

For he who finds me [is] he who finds life, and he obtains favor from Yahweh.

The good obtains favor from Yahweh, but anyone who schemes, he condemns.

Good sense grants favor, but the way of the faithless is coarse.

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

[It is] like a sport for a fool to do wrong, wisdom for a person of understanding.