Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Don't fall into the habit of taking oaths, and don't use God's holy name too freely. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Let not thy mouth be accustomed to swearing: for in it there are many falls. 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. Sirach 23:8 A sinner is caught in his own vanity, and the proud and the evil speakers shall fall thereby. 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. Sirach 23:11 For as a slave daily put to the question, is never without a blue mark: so every one that sweareth, and nameth, shall not be wholly pure from sin. Context Sirach 23…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. 10And 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.… Cross References 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. 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. Sirach 23:11 For as a slave daily put to the question, is never without a blue mark: so every one that sweareth, and nameth, shall not be wholly pure from sin. |
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