Sirach 27:18
Good News Translation
You have killed that friendship just as surely as if you had taken a weapon and killed an enemy.

New Revised Standard Version
For as a person destroys his enemy, so you have destroyed the friendship of your neighbor.

Contemporary English Version
and your friendship is as dead as a soldier killed by the enemy.

New American Bible
For as one might kill another, you have killed your neighbor’s friendship.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Love thy neighbour, and be joined to him with fidelity.

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Love thy neighbour, and be joined to him with fidelity.

Sirach 27:16
In the quarrels of the road is the shedding of blood: and their cursing is a grievous hearing.

Sirach 27:17
He that discloseth the secret of a friend loseth his credit, and shall never find a friend to his mind.

Sirach 27:19
But if thou discover his secrets, follow no more after him.

Sirach 27:20
For as a man that destroyeth his friend, so is he that destroyeth the friendship of his neighbour.

Context
Sirach 27
17He that discloseth the secret of a friend loseth his credit, and shall never find a friend to his mind. 18Love thy neighbour, and be joined to him with fidelity. 19But if thou discover his secrets, follow no more after him.…
Cross References
Sirach 27:16
In the quarrels of the road is the shedding of blood: and their cursing is a grievous hearing.

Sirach 27:17
He that discloseth the secret of a friend loseth his credit, and shall never find a friend to his mind.

Sirach 27:19
But if thou discover his secrets, follow no more after him.

Sirach 27:20
For as a man that destroyeth his friend, so is he that destroyeth the friendship of his neighbour.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 27:17
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