Proverbs 17:7-10 King James 2000 (KJ2000)

7. Excellent speech becomes not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.

8. A bribe is as a magic stone in the eyes of him that gives it: wherever he turns, he prospers.

9. He that covers over a transgression seeks love; but he that repeats a matter separates close friends.

10. A reproof enters more into a wise man than a hundred stripes into a fool.

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