Good News Bible

Proverbs 17:7-11 Good News Bible (GNB)

7. Respected people do not tell lies, and fools have nothing worthwhile to say.

8. Some people think a bribe works like magic; they believe it can do anything.

9. If you want people to like you, forgive them when they wrong you. Remembering wrongs can break up a friendship.

10. An intelligent person learns more from one rebuke than a fool learns from being beaten a hundred times.

11. Death will come like a cruel messenger to wicked people who are always stirring up trouble.