Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation O Lord, my Father, God of my life, keep me from being arrogant; New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge O Lord, father, and God of my life, leave me not to their devices. Sirach 23:2Who will set scourges over my thoughts, and the discipline of wisdom over my heart, that they spare me not in their ignorances, and that their sins may not appear: Sirach 23:3 Lest my ignorances increase, and my offences be multiplied, and my sins abound, and I fall before my adversaries, and my enemy rejoice over me? Sirach 23:5 Give me not haughtiness of my eyes, and turn away from me all coveting. Sirach 23:6 Take from me the greediness of the belly, and let not the lusts of the flesh take hold of me, and give me not over to a shameless and foolish mind. Context Sirach 23…3Lest my ignorances increase, and my offences be multiplied, and my sins abound, and I fall before my adversaries, and my enemy rejoice over me? 4O Lord, father, and God of my life, leave me not to their devices. 5Give me not haughtiness of my eyes, and turn away from me all coveting.… Cross References Sirach 23:2 Who will set scourges over my thoughts, and the discipline of wisdom over my heart, that they spare me not in their ignorances, and that their sins may not appear: Sirach 23:3 Lest my ignorances increase, and my offences be multiplied, and my sins abound, and I fall before my adversaries, and my enemy rejoice over me? Sirach 23:5 Give me not haughtiness of my eyes, and turn away from me all coveting. Sirach 23:6 Take from me the greediness of the belly, and let not the lusts of the flesh take hold of me, and give me not over to a shameless and foolish mind. |
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