Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Someone may be waiting for you to slip, and if you are not careful, you will stumble over your own words and fall down in front of him. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Its continuance shall not be for a long time, but it shall possess the ways of the unjust: and the just shall not be burnt with its flame. Sirach 28:24For its yoke is a yoke of iron: and its bands are bands of brass. Sirach 28:25 The death thereof is a most evil death: and hell is preferable to it. Sirach 28:27 They that forsake God shall fall into it, and it shall burn in them, and shall not be quenched, and it shall be sent upon them as a lion, and as a leopard it shall tear them. Sirach 28:28 Hedge in thy ears with thorns, hear not a wicked tongue, and make doors and bars to thy mouth. Context Sirach 28…25The death thereof is a most evil death: and hell is preferable to it. 26Its continuance shall not be for a long time, but it shall possess the ways of the unjust: and the just shall not be burnt with its flame. 27They that forsake God shall fall into it, and it shall burn in them, and shall not be quenched, and it shall be sent upon them as a lion, and as a leopard it shall tear them.… Cross References Sirach 28:24 For its yoke is a yoke of iron: and its bands are bands of brass. Sirach 28:25 The death thereof is a most evil death: and hell is preferable to it. Sirach 28:27 They that forsake God shall fall into it, and it shall burn in them, and shall not be quenched, and it shall be sent upon them as a lion, and as a leopard it shall tear them. Sirach 28:28 Hedge in thy ears with thorns, hear not a wicked tongue, and make doors and bars to thy mouth. |
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