It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful.

The king responded to the people harshly. He ¹  rejected the advice of the older men

The king responded to the people harshly. He rejected the advice of the older men

The spiritually insensitive do not recognize this; the fool does not understand this. ¹ 

The one who gives an answer ¹  before he listens ²  – that is his folly and his shame. ³ 

I am a debtor ¹  both to the Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

If you have done foolishly by exalting yourself ¹  or if you have planned evil, put ²  your hand over your mouth!

These people continually and blatantly offend me ¹  as they sacrifice in their sacred orchards ²  and burn incense on brick altars. ³ 

“You have criticized me sharply,” ¹  says the Lord, “but you ask, ‘How have we criticized you?’

The one who eats everything must not despise the one who does not, and the one who abstains must not judge the one who eats everything, for God has accepted him.

And even if I am unskilled ¹  in speaking, yet I am certainly not so in knowledge. Indeed, we have made this plain to you in everything in every way.

A thoroughfare will be there – it will be called the Way of Holiness. ¹  The unclean will not travel on it; it is reserved for those authorized to use it ²  – fools ³  will not stray into it.

But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who calls himself a Christian ¹  who is sexually immoral, or greedy, or an idolater, or verbally abusive, ²  or a drunkard, or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person.

For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship. ¹