TSK · Proverbs 13:10

The Ephraimites said to him,“Why have you done such a thing to us? You did not summon us when you went to fight the Midianites!” They argued vehemently with him.

The young advisers with whom Rehoboam had grown up said to him,“Say this to these people who have said to you,‘Your father made us work hard, but now lighten our burden.’ Say this to them:‘I am a lot harsher than my father!

You thoroughly defeated Edom and it has gone to your head! Gloat over your success, but stay in your palace. Why bring calamity on yourself? Why bring down yourself and Judah along with you?”

Starting a quarrel is like letting out water; abandon strife before it breaks out!

Plans are established by counsel, so make war with guidance.

Do not go out hastily to litigation, or what will you do afterward when your neighbor puts you to shame?

For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn’t sit down first and compute the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it?

The Appointment of the First Seven Deacons Now in those days, when the disciples were growing in number, a complaint arose on the part of the Greek-speaking Jews against the native Hebraic Jews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.

Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says,“The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning”?