²⁰ And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.

¹⁰ But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.

¹⁷ And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this: is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men.

¹⁶ Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

¹⁸ Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

¹³ He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.

⁹ The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

²⁹ But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?