Good Friends, for Jesus sake forebear To dig the dust enclosed here Blest be the man who spares these stones And cursed be the man who moves my bones
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You told me, I remember, glory, built On selfish principles, is shame and guilt; The deeds that men admire as half divine, Stark naught, because corrupt in their design. Strange doctrine this! that without scruple tears The laurel that the very lightning spares; Brings down the warrior
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He who spares the bad injures the good.
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Proverbs 13:24:
Those who spare the rod hate their children, but those who love them are careful to discipline them.
(NIV)
He who spares his rod [of discipline] hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines diligently and punishes him early. [Prov. 19:18; 22:15; 23:13; 29:15, 17.](AMP)
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
(KJV)
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How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
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One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
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He that spares the bad injures the good
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A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
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They do injury to the good who spares the bad.
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He who spares the wicked injures the good.
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