²⁵ But it will go well with those who convict the guilty, And a rich blessing will come on them.

²³ One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor Than one who flatters with the tongue.

¹⁵ Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no man despise you.

¹³ This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

² preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.

²⁰ Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

⁴ For John said to him, "It is not lawful for you to have her."

¹⁶ I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out.

¹⁷ I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth.

¹⁸ Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand.

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.

²⁵ I contended with them, and cursed them, and struck certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, [saying], You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.

¹⁷ Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, What evil thing is this that you do, and profane the Sabbath day?

⁸ It grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber.

⁹ Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers: and there brought I again the vessels of the house of God, with the meal-offerings and the frankincense.

¹⁰ I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them; so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, were fled everyone to his field.

¹¹ Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? I gathered them together, and set them in their place.

⁷ Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, You exact usury, everyone of his brother. I held a great assembly against them.

⁸ I said to them, We after our ability have redeemed our brothers the Jews, that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us? Then held they their peace, and found never a word.

⁹ Also I said, The thing that you do is not good: ought you not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

¹⁹ You shall speak to him, saying, Thus says Yahweh, Have you killed and also taken possession? You shall speak to him, saying, Thus says Yahweh, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your blood, even yours.

²⁰ Ahab said to Elijah, Have you found me, my enemy? He answered, I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh.

¹³ For I have told him that I will judge his house forever, for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons did bring a curse on themselves, and he didn't restrain them.

¹⁷ "'You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.