Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation protect me from evil desires. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Give me not haughtiness of my eyes, and turn away from me all coveting. 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? Sirach 23:4 O Lord, father, and God of my life, leave me not to their devices. 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. Sirach 23:7 Hear, O ye children, the discipline of the mouth, and he that will keep it shall not perish by his lips, nor be brought to fall into most wicked works. Context Sirach 23…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. 6Take 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.… Cross References 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 23:4 O Lord, father, and God of my life, leave me not to their devices. 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. Sirach 23:7 Hear, O ye children, the discipline of the mouth, and he that will keep it shall not perish by his lips, nor be brought to fall into most wicked works. |
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