Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Keep me from being overcome by greed or lust; do not leave me at the mercy of these shameless passions. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge 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 23:4O Lord, father, and God of my life, leave me not to their devices. Sirach 23:5 Give me not haughtiness of my eyes, and turn away from me all coveting. 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. Sirach 23:8 A sinner is caught in his own vanity, and the proud and the evil speakers shall fall thereby. Context Sirach 23…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. 7Hear, 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.… Cross References Sirach 23:4 O Lord, father, and God of my life, leave me not to their devices. Sirach 23:5 Give me not haughtiness of my eyes, and turn away from me all coveting. 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. Sirach 23:8 A sinner is caught in his own vanity, and the proud and the evil speakers shall fall thereby. |
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