Common sense advice today: don’t provoke people who’ve got the power to hurt you - you’re asking for it if they retaliate. Even more spiritual subjects are backed up with a pragmatic “it’ll be worse for you if you do” comment - for instance, “ You should not provide a sinner with more opportunity to sin. You might get hurt yourself” from verse 8.
Chapter 7 with its theme of God’s sovereignty might have capped this piece of advice with a word about God’s ultimate authority to punish, but here , it’s all more mundane and matter of fact. So there are two reasons to do the right thing - a spiritual one (God isn’t pleased with your sin) and a practical one (harmful actions will damage you in the end).
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