Proverbs 16:7-10

"When a man's ways please the LORD, He maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him." Proverbs 16:7

I must see that my ways please the LORD. Even then I shall have enemies; and, perhaps, all the more certainly because I endeavor to do that which is right. But what a promise this is! The LORD will make the wrath of man to praise Him and abate it so that it shall not distress me.

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