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Proverbs 13:6

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Goodness protects a good, honest person. But evil defeats the person that loves to sin.

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Good, honest people are guided by honesty. But evil people destroy themselves when they cheat other people.


God is good. God knows what evil people are doing, and he will punish them.


Lord, don’t let those liars live.\par Make bad things happen\par to those bad people.\par


Lord, judge me.\par Prove that I have lived a pure life.\par I never stopped trusting the Lord.\par


God, you are truly good.\par I trust you,\par so protect me.\par


Only a person who lives a pure life,\par and does good things,\par and speaks truth from the heart\par \{can live on your mountain\}.\par


The sins of an evil person will trap him. His sins will be like ropes holding him.


He offered sacrifices {\cf2\super [327]} to the gods the people of Damascus worshiped. The people of Damascus had defeated Ahaz. So he thought to himself, “The gods the people of Aram worship helped them. So if I offer sacrifices to those gods, maybe they will help me also.” Ahaz worshiped those gods. In this way he sinned, and he made the people of Israel sin.


People living pure lives are happy.\par Those people follow the Lord’s teachings.\par


The Lord protects good people. But the Lord destroys people that do wrong.


The Lord hates people that love to do evil. But he is happy with people that try to do right.


So Solomon answered, “If Adonijah shows that he is a good man, then I promise that not even a hair on his head will be hurt. But if he does anything wrong, then he will die.”


That was the sin that caused the destruction and ruin of his kingdom.





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