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If a wise person takes a fool to court,
    there will be ranting and ridicule but no satisfaction.

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13 Fools base their thoughts on foolish assumptions,
    so their conclusions will be wicked madness;

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Don’t answer the foolish arguments of fools,
    or you will become as foolish as they are.

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17 ‘We played wedding songs,
    and you didn’t dance,
so we played funeral songs,
    and you didn’t mourn.’

18 For John didn’t spend his time eating and drinking, and you say, ‘He’s possessed by a demon.’ 19 The Son of Man,[a] on the other hand, feasts and drinks, and you say, ‘He’s a glutton and a drunkard, and a friend of tax collectors and other sinners!’ But wisdom is shown to be right by its results.”

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Footnotes

  1. 11:19 “Son of Man” is a title Jesus used for himself.

“Don’t waste what is holy on people who are unholy.[a] Don’t throw your pearls to pigs! They will trample the pearls, then turn and attack you.

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Footnotes

  1. 7:6 Greek Don’t give the sacred to dogs.

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