When a bhikkhu who has left the Dhamma and training is disparaging the Buddha’s states as merely human and his teaching as merely leading to the end of suffering, the Buddha counters that this is in fact praise and goes on to enumerate his various attainments.

When robbers assault venerable Nāgasamāla after he takes a wrong path, the Buddha expresses a verse about the wise person who does not mix with ignorance and abandons what is harmful.