Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation The Lord has overthrown kings and put humbler people in their place. Contemporary English Version Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge The beginning of the pride of man, is to fall off from God: Sirach 10:12The physician cutteth off a short sickness: so also a king is to day, and to morrow he shall die. Sirach 10:13 For when a man shall die, he shall inherit serpents, and beasts, and worms. Sirach 10:15 Because his heart is departed from him that made him: for pride is the beginning of all sin: he that holdeth it, shall be filled with maledictions, and it shall ruin him in the end. Sirach 10:16 Therefore hath the Lord disgraced the assemblies of the wicked, and hath utterly destroyed them. Context Sirach 10…13For when a man shall die, he shall inherit serpents, and beasts, and worms. 14The beginning of the pride of man, is to fall off from God: 15Because his heart is departed from him that made him: for pride is the beginning of all sin: he that holdeth it, shall be filled with maledictions, and it shall ruin him in the end.… Cross References Sirach 10:12 The physician cutteth off a short sickness: so also a king is to day, and to morrow he shall die. Sirach 10:13 For when a man shall die, he shall inherit serpents, and beasts, and worms. Sirach 10:15 Because his heart is departed from him that made him: for pride is the beginning of all sin: he that holdeth it, shall be filled with maledictions, and it shall ruin him in the end. Sirach 10:16 Therefore hath the Lord disgraced the assemblies of the wicked, and hath utterly destroyed them. |
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