¹⁰ Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; Yes, quarrels and insults will stop.

⁹ Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

¹⁰ Therefore she said to Abraham, "Cast out this handmaid and her son! For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, even with Isaac."

¹³ But those who are outside, God judges. "Put away the wicked man from among yourselves."

²⁴ The proud and haughty man, "scoffer" is his name; He works in the arrogance of pride.

⁵ I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won't tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.

²⁸ One of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.

¹ But it happened that when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.

² He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, seeing they are burned?

³ Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they are building, if a fox go up, he shall break down their stone wall.

⁵ are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

⁶ Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

¹⁷ If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

²⁰ For lack of wood a fire goes out; Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.

²¹ As coals are to hot embers, And wood to fire, So is a contentious man to kindling strife.

⁶ A fool's lips come into strife, And his mouth invites beatings.