Blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodguilt and from working salvation with my own hand!
Now then, my lord, as the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, because the Lord has restrained you from bloodguilt and from saving with your own hand, now then let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be as Nabal.
Whoever rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than he who flatters with his tongue.
The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and a man is tested by his praise.
Like a gold ring or an ornament of gold is a wise reprover to a listening ear.
A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred blows into a fool.
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
Let a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness; let him rebuke me—it is oil for my head; let my head not refuse it. Yet my prayer is continually against their evil deeds.
But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for who can put out his hand against the Lord's anointed and be guiltless?” And David said, “As the Lord lives, the Lord will strike him, or his day will come to die, or he will go down into battle and perish.
my lord shall have no cause of grief or pangs of conscience for having shed blood without cause or for my lord working salvation himself. And when the Lord has dealt well with my lord, then remember your servant.”
For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away safe? So may the Lord reward you with good for what you have done to me this day.
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