Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.
Fools treat sin as a light or mocking matter, making sport of wrongdoing instead of reckoning with its gravity. Sin holds terrible power over the wrongdoer, for sinful habits bind a person fast in evil and enslave the life to its control. To allow a child or youth to become bound by such habits is to do them great harm, fastening upon them a bondage that works their ruin.
Fools treat sin as a light or mocking matter, making sport of wrongdoing instead of reckoning with its gravity. Sin holds terrible power over the wrongdoer, for sinful habits bind a person fast in evil and enslave the life to its control. To allow a child or youth to become bound by such habits is to do them great harm, fastening upon them a bondage that works their ruin.