Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Sinners are caught by their own arrogant, insulting words. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge A sinner is caught in his own vanity, and the proud and the evil speakers shall fall thereby. Sirach 23:6Take 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. 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 23:9 Let not thy mouth be accustomed to swearing: for in it there are many falls. Sirach 23:10 And let not the naming of God be usual in thy mouth, and meddle not with the names of saints, for thou shalt not escape free from them. Context Sirach 23…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. 8A sinner is caught in his own vanity, and the proud and the evil speakers shall fall thereby. 9Let not thy mouth be accustomed to swearing: for in it there are many falls.… Cross References 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. Sirach 23:9 Let not thy mouth be accustomed to swearing: for in it there are many falls. Sirach 23:10 And let not the naming of God be usual in thy mouth, and meddle not with the names of saints, for thou shalt not escape free from them. |
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