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Proverbs 18:1-2, 6-8, 11, 20-21, 24

Proverbs 18:1-2 NIV

An unfriendly person pursues selfish ends and against all sound judgment starts quarrels. Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions.

Proverbs 18:6-8 NIV

The lips of fools bring them strife, and their mouths invite a beating. The mouths of fools are their undoing, and their lips are a snare to their very lives. The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to the inmost parts.

Proverbs 18:11 NIV

The wealth of the rich is their fortified city; they imagine it a wall too high to scale.

Proverbs 18:20-21 NIV

From the fruit of their mouth a person’s stomach is filled; with the harvest of their lips they are satisfied. The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

Proverbs 18:24 NIV

One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

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