Good News Bible

Proverbs 17:8-15 Good News Bible (GNB)

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.

12. It is better to meet a mother bear robbed of her cubs than to meet some fool busy with a stupid project.

13. If you repay good with evil, you will never get evil out of your house.

14. The start of an argument is like the first break in a dam; stop it before it goes any further.

15. Condemning the innocent or letting the wicked go — both are hateful to the Lord.