Proverbs 20 New International Version

¹⁹A gossip betrays a confidence;
so avoid anyone who talks too much.

²⁰If someone curses their father or mother,
their lamp will be snuffed out in pitch darkness.

²¹An inheritance claimed too soon
will not be blessed at the end.

²²Do not say, “I’ll pay you back for this wrong!”
Wait for the Lord, and he will avenge you.

²³The Lord detests differing weights,
and dishonest scales do not please him.

²⁴A person’s steps are directed by the Lord.
How then can anyone understand their own way?

²⁵It is a trap to dedicate something rashly
and only later to consider one’s vows.

²⁶A wise king winnows out the wicked;
he drives the threshing wheel over them.

²⁷The human spirit is^[a] the lamp of the Lord
that sheds light on one’s inmost being.

²⁸Love and faithfulness keep a king safe;
through love his throne is made secure.

²⁹The glory of young men is their strength,
grey hair the splendour of the old.

³⁰Blows and wounds scrub away evil,
and beatings purge the inmost being.

Hosea 2 New International Version

“Therefore I am now going to allure her;
I will lead her into the wilderness
and speak tenderly to her.
15 There I will give her back her vineyards,
and will make the Valley of Achor[b] a door of hope.
There she will respond[c] as in the days of her youth,
as in the day she came up out of Egypt.

16 “In that day,” declares the Lord,
“you will call me ‘my husband’;
you will no longer call me ‘my master.[d]’
17 I will remove the names of the Baals from her lips;
no longer will their names be invoked.
18 In that day I will make a covenant for them
with the beasts of the field, the birds in the sky
and the creatures that move along the ground.
Bow and sword and battle
I will abolish from the land,
so that all may lie down in safety.
19 I will betroth you to me forever;
I will betroth you in[e] righteousness and justice,
in[f] love and compassion.
20 I will betroth you in[g] faithfulness,
and you will acknowledge the Lord.

Could I forgive the person that stabbed/shot a member of my family? It’s a question you can’t really answer till your in that position. So all i’m going to say is it would be a tough one for me to answer. Could you forgive?