Reject a divisive person after one or two warnings.

and this water that causes the curse will go ¹  into your stomach, and make your abdomen swell and your thigh rot.” ²  Then the woman must say, “Amen, amen.” ³ 

And whoever touches the body of someone killed with a sword in the open fields, ¹  or the body of someone who died of natural causes, ²  or a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean seven days. ³ 

He will become a sanctuary, ¹  but a stone that makes a person trip, and a rock that makes one stumble – to the two houses of Israel. ²  He will become ³  a trap and a snare to the residents of Jerusalem. ⁴ 

like heat ¹  in a dry land, you humble the boasting foreigners. ²  Just as the shadow of a cloud causes the heat to subside, ³  so he causes the song of tyrants to cease. ⁴ 

“But when you see the abomination of desolation ¹  standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then those in Judea must flee ²  to the mountains.

just as it is written, “Look, I am laying in Zion a stone that will cause people to stumble and a rock that will make them fall, ¹  yet the one who believes in him will not be put to shame.” ² 

From him the whole body grows, fitted and held together ¹  through every supporting ligament. ²  As each one does its part, the body grows in love.

He ¹  exercised all the ruling authority ²  of the first beast on his behalf, ³  and made the earth and those who inhabit it worship the first beast, the one whose lethal wound had been healed.

He deprives the leaders of the earth ¹  of their understanding; ²  he makes them wander in a trackless desert waste. ³ 

When ¹  I hear a reproof that dishonors ²  me, then my understanding ³  prompts me to answer. ⁴ 

For he repays a person for his work, ¹  and according to the conduct of a person, he causes the consequences to find him. ² 

He causes everyone to stop working, ¹  so that all people ²  may know ³  his work.

He becomes the victim of his own destructive plans ¹  and the violence he intended for others falls on his own head. ² 

Do not be angry and frustrated! ¹  Do not fret! That only leads to trouble!

Who can really fathom the intensity of your anger? ¹  Your raging fury causes people to fear you. ² 

The way of the wicked is like gloomy darkness; ¹  they do not know what causes them to stumble. ² 

The one who heeds instruction ¹  is on the way to ²  life, but the one who rejects ³  rebuke goes astray.

The righteous person is cautious in his friendship, ¹  but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

The king shows favor ¹  to a wise ²  servant, but his wrath falls ³  on one who acts shamefully.