Verse (Click for Chapter) Contemporary English Version If you learn and follow the Lord's commands, you will please him, and he will allow you to eat fruit from the tree that lets you live forever. Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge But the learning of wickedness is not wisdom: and the device of sinners is not prudence. Sirach 19:17For who is there that hath not offended with his tongue? Admonish thy neighbour before thou threaten him. Sirach 19:18 And give place to the fear of the most High: for the fear of God is all wisdom, and therein is to fear God, and the disposition of the law is in all wisdom. Sirach 19:20 There is a subtle wickedness, and the same is detestable: and there is a man that is foolish, wanting in wisdom. Sirach 19:21 Better is a man that hath less wisdom, and wanteth understanding, with the fear of God, than he that aboundeth in understanding, and transgresseth the law of the most High. Context Sirach 19…18And give place to the fear of the most High: for the fear of God is all wisdom, and therein is to fear God, and the disposition of the law is in all wisdom. 19But the learning of wickedness is not wisdom: and the device of sinners is not prudence. 20There is a subtle wickedness, and the same is detestable: and there is a man that is foolish, wanting in wisdom.… Cross References Sirach 19:17 For who is there that hath not offended with his tongue? Admonish thy neighbour before thou threaten him. Sirach 19:18 And give place to the fear of the most High: for the fear of God is all wisdom, and therein is to fear God, and the disposition of the law is in all wisdom. Sirach 19:20 There is a subtle wickedness, and the same is detestable: and there is a man that is foolish, wanting in wisdom. Sirach 19:21 Better is a man that hath less wisdom, and wanteth understanding, with the fear of God, than he that aboundeth in understanding, and transgresseth the law of the most High. |
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