Proverbs 17:9

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Forgive someone, and you will strengthen your friendship. Keep reminding them, and you will destroy it.

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Hatred causes arguments, but love overlooks all wrongs.

Most important of all, love each other deeply, because love makes you willing to forgive many sins.

Troublemakers are always causing problems. Their gossip breaks up the closest of friends.

It is a great blessing when people are forgiven for the wrongs they have done, when their sins are erased.

Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous, it does not brag, and it is not proud.

remember this: Anyone who brings a sinner back from the wrong way will save that person from eternal death and cause many sins to be forgiven.

Smart people learn more from a single correction than fools learn from a hundred beatings.