how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, one who drinks iniquity like water!
Proverbs 14:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Fools mock at the guilt offering, but the upright enjoy God’s favor. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Fools make a mock at sin: But among the righteous there is favour. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Fools make a mock of sin and sin mocks the fools [who are its victims; a sin offering made by them only mocks them, bringing them disappointment and disfavor], but among the upright there is the favor of God. [Prov. 10:23.] American Standard Version (1901) A trespass-offering mocketh fools; But among the upright there is good will. Common English Bible Fools mock a compensation offering, but favor is with those who do right. Catholic Public Domain Version The foolish will speak mockingly of sin. But grace lingers among the just. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version A fool will laugh at sin, but among the just grace shall abide. |
how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, one who drinks iniquity like water!
“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?
Doing wrong is like sport to a fool, but wise conduct is pleasure to a person of understanding.
Crooked minds are an abomination to the Lord, but those of blameless ways are his delight.
This is the way of an adulteress: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, “I have done no wrong.”
“But if you cannot afford a sheep, you shall bring to the Lord, as your penalty for the sin that you have committed, two turtledoves or two pigeons, one for a purification offering and the other for a burnt offering.
for they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, indulging their own ungodly lusts.”