Starting a quarrel ¹  is like letting out water; ²  stop it before strife breaks out! ³ 

A friend ¹  loves at all times, and a relative ²  is born to help in adversity. ³ 

When a wicked person ¹  arrives, contempt ²  shows up with him, and with shame comes ³  a reproach.

Take a man’s ¹  garment ²  when he has given security for a stranger, ³  and when he gives surety for strangers, ⁴  hold him ⁵  in pledge.

The rich rule over ¹  the poor, and the borrower is servant ²  to the lender.

The father of a righteous person will rejoice greatly; ¹  whoever fathers a wise child ²  will have joy in him.

Like legs that hang limp ¹  from the lame, so ²  is a proverb ³  in the mouth of fools.

For he came out of prison ¹  to become king, even though he had been born poor in what would become his ²  kingdom.

The grass dries up, the flowers wither, when the wind sent by the Lord ¹  blows on them. Surely humanity ²  is like grass.

Look, you are nothing, and your accomplishments are nonexistent; the one who chooses to worship you is disgusting. ¹ 

For there will no longer be any false visions or flattering omens amidst the house of Israel.

and the two will become one flesh. ¹  So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

What is born of the flesh is flesh, ¹  and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

But if I do what I don’t want, I agree that the law is good. ¹ 

My children – I am again undergoing birth pains until Christ is formed in you! ¹ 

Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.

Also, anything they fall on ¹  when they die will become unclean – any wood vessel or garment or article of leather or sackcloth. Any such vessel with which work is done must be immersed in water ²  and will be unclean until the evening. Then it will become clean.

but if a priest’s daughter is a widow or divorced, and she has no children so that she returns to live in ¹  her father’s house as in her youth, ²  she may eat from her father’s food, but no lay person may eat it.

But you banished ¹  the Lord’s priests, Aaron’s descendants, and the Levites, and appointed your own priests just as the surrounding nations do! Anyone who comes to consecrate himself with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of these fake gods! ² 

A man uses it to make a fire; ¹  he takes some of it and warms himself. Yes, he kindles a fire and bakes bread. Then he makes a god and worships it; he makes an idol and bows down to it. ²