disagreement, do I spin things in my favor? Do I believe all things and hope all things for the other Christian (1 Cor 13:7)? Or do I assume the worst about them?17 In any case, to whatever extent we can repent of and crucify our tendencies toward folly, how do we respond to foolish criticism in a new covenant context? The wisdom of Proverbs can be restated for Christians in the following way: the righteous-wise of the new covenant—those reckoned righteous by faith, who are wise to God’s strange