Bible verse
Drive out the mocker, and conflict will depart; even quarreling and insults will cease.
Proverbs 22:10 · BSB
The verses around it, from Proverbs 22.
6 Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
7 The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.
8 He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
9 A generous man will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.
10 Drive out the mocker, and conflict will depart; even quarreling and insults will cease.
11 He who loves a pure heart and gracious lips will have the king for a friend.
12 The LORD’s eyes keep watch over knowledge, but He frustrates the words of the faithless.
13 The slacker says, “There is a lion outside! I will be slain in the streets!”
14 The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it.
KJV
Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.
ASV
Cast out the scoffer, and contention will go out; Yea, strife and ignominy will cease.
ERV
Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and ignominy shall cease.
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