For the sake of friendship, he chose to cut off his own interests and take righteousness.

He often takes things out of context, leading people to misunderstand.

He chose to discard the shadow for the substance.

Thinking sensibly, that plan will not succeed.

This is a preliminary plan.

He is interested in diachronic linguistics studies.

He is interested in synchronic linguistics.

That theory is unscientific and has no evidence at all.

He accidentally held her hand.

He is thought to be a very unsociable person.