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Proverbs 14:9

Proverbs 14:9 is verse 9 of Proverbs chapter 14, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

Fools mock the making of amends, but goodwill is found among the upright.

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

Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but among the upright there is good will.

Proverbs 14:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible

7 Stay away from a foolish man; you will gain no knowledge from his speech.

8 The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way, but the folly of fools deceives them.

9 Fools mock the making of amends, but goodwill is found among the upright.

10 The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares in its joy.

11 The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

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Proverbs 1:22
“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 10:23
The fool delights in shameful conduct, but a man of understanding has wisdom.

Proverbs 26:18
Like a madman shooting firebrands and deadly arrows,

Proverbs 26:19
so is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “I was only joking!”

Proverbs 30:20
This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’

Job 15:16
how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?

Job 34:7
What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?

Job 34:8
He keeps company with evildoers and walks with wicked men.

Job 34:9
For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’

Jude 1:18
when they said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow after their own ungodly desires.”

Proverbs 3:4
Then you will find favor and high regard in the sight of God and man.

Proverbs 8:35
For whoever finds me finds life and obtains the favor of the LORD.

Proverbs 12:2
The good man obtains favor from the LORD, but the LORD condemns a man who devises evil.

Proverbs 13:15
Good understanding wins favor, but the way of the faithless is difficult.

Romans 14:17
For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Romans 14:18
For whoever serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men.