For such people don’t serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly. By their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.
Come now y’all. Let’s kill him and throw him into one of the pits. Then we will say, ‘An vicious animal has devoured him.’ We will see what will become of his dreams.”
He who walks righteously and speaks blamelessly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—
