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17 Anyone willing to be corrected is on the pathway to life. Anyone refusing has lost his chance.

18 To hide hatred is to be a liar; to slander is to be a fool.

19 Don’t talk so much. You keep putting your foot in your mouth. Be sensible and turn off the flow!

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17 He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.

18 He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.

19 In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.

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17 Whoever heeds discipline shows the way to life,(A)
    but whoever ignores correction leads others astray.

18 Whoever conceals hatred with lying lips(B)
    and spreads slander is a fool.

19 Sin is not ended by multiplying words,
    but the prudent hold their tongues.(C)

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