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16 Righteous people receive life as their wages.[a]
    Wicked people receive only punishment.
17 People who listen when people warn them are on the road to life.
    But those who refuse to listen are on a different road.
18 If you hate somebody but you try to hide it, you are telling lies.
    And if you say false things about other people, you are a fool.

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Footnotes

  1. 10:16 You do work and someone pays you for it. That money is called wages.

16 The wages of the righteous is life,(A)
    but the earnings of the wicked are sin and death.(B)

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

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

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