Proverbs 15:12 New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References 12 The ridiculer does not love the one reproving him.+ To the wise ones he will not go.+ Ecclesiastes 10:4 New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References 4 If the spirit of a ruler should mount up against you, do not leave your own place,+ for calmness itself allays great sins.+ 1 Peter 2:20 New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References 20 For what merit is there in it if, when YOU are sinning and being slapped,* YOU endure it?+ But if, when YOU are doing good and YOU suffer,+ YOU endure it, this is a thing agreeable with God.+
4 If the spirit of a ruler should mount up against you, do not leave your own place,+ for calmness itself allays great sins.+
20 For what merit is there in it if, when YOU are sinning and being slapped,* YOU endure it?+ But if, when YOU are doing good and YOU suffer,+ YOU endure it, this is a thing agreeable with God.+