OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 25:9

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Debate your case with your neighbor, and don’t betray the confidence of another,

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Verse 9. Stranger. It sometimes happens that friends fall out; but if either disclose the secret of the other, he will be deemed infamous. Calmet. Jos. con. Ap. 2.—Saint Ambrose says of his brother Satyrus, “though we had all things in common, yet the secret of our friends was not so.”

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