Proverbs 14:9
Fools mock the making of amends, but goodwill is found among the upright.
BSB
ASV
A trespass-offering mocketh fools; But among the upright there is good will.
KJV
Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.
Fools make a mock - The verb in the Heb. is singular, the noun plural. The King James Version assumes that the number is altered to individualize the application of the maxim. Others translate it: “Sin mocks the fools who are its victims,” i. e., disappoints and ruins them; or, “A sin-offering does but mock the worshippers when they are willfully wicked:” they expect to gain God’s favor, and do not gain it. So taken it becomes parallel to Pro 15:8; Pro 21:7.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Proverbs 8:35For whoever finds me finds life and obtains the favor of the LORD.
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Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”
And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
The good man obtains favor from the LORD, but the LORD condemns a man who devises evil.
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Jude 1:18when they said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow after their own ungodly desires.”
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Most importantly, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.
For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires.
while evil men and imposters go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come.
Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,