³ An honour to a man is cessation from strife, And every fool intermeddleth.

¹⁴ The beginning of contention `is' a letting out of waters, And before it is meddled with leave the strife.

¹¹ The wisdom of a man hath deferred his anger, And his glory `is' to pass over transgression.

⁶ The lips of a fool enter into strife, And his mouth for stripes calleth.

³² Better `is' the slow to anger than the mighty, And the ruler over his spirit than he who is taking a city.

²⁹ Whoso is slow to anger `is' of great understanding, And whoso is short in temper is exalting folly.

¹ Whence `are' wars and fightings among you? not thence -- out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?

¹⁴ and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;

³² and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

¹ Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,

⁶ to the praise of the glory of His grace, in which He did make us accepted in the beloved,

⁷ in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the remission of the trespasses, according to the riches of His grace,

⁸ in which He did abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

⁸ Go not forth to strive, haste, turn, What dost thou in its latter end, When thy neighbour causeth thee to blush?

⁹ Thy cause plead with thy neighbour, And the secret counsel of another reveal not,

¹⁰ Lest the hearer put thee to shame, And thine evil report turn not back.

²⁴ Proud, haughty, scorner `is' his name, Who is working in the wrath of pride.

¹⁷ Whoso is short of temper doth folly, And a man of wicked devices is hated.

⁹ And Jehoash king of Israel sendeth unto Amaziah king of Judah, saying, `The thorn that `is' in Lebanon hath sent unto the cedar that `is' in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son for a wife; and pass by doth a beast of the field that `is' in Lebanon, and treadeth down the thorn.