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Proverbs 19:22-29 Good News Bible (GNB)

22. It is a disgrace to be greedy; poor people are better off than liars.

23. Obey the Lord and you will live a long life, content and safe from harm.

24. Some people are too lazy to put food in their own mouths.

25. Arrogance should be punished, so that people who don't know any better can learn a lesson. If you are wise, you will learn when you are corrected.

26. Only a shameful, disgraceful person would ill-treat his father or turn his mother away from his home.

27. Son, when you stop learning, you will soon neglect what you already know.

28. There is no justice where a witness is determined to hurt someone. Wicked people love the taste of evil.

29. A conceited fool is sure to get a beating.