Sirach 3:4
Good News Translation
and if you honor your mother, you are earning great wealth.

New Revised Standard Version
and those who respect their mother are like those who lay up treasure.

Contemporary English Version
show respect to your mother, and you will be truly rich.

New American Bible
they store up riches who respect their mother.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that loveth God, shall obtain pardon for his sins by prayer, and shall refrain himself from them, and shall be heard in the prayer of days.

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He that loveth God, shall obtain pardon for his sins by prayer, and shall refrain himself from them, and shall be heard in the prayer of days.

Sirach 3:2
Children, hear the judgment of your father, and so do that you may be saved.

Sirach 3:3
For God hath made the father honourable to the children: and seeking the judgment of the mothers, hath confirmed it upon the children.

Sirach 3:5
And he that honoureth his mother is as one that layeth up a treasure.

Sirach 3:6
He that honoureth his father shall have joy in his own children, and in the day of his prayer he shall be heard.

Context
Sirach 3
3For God hath made the father honourable to the children: and seeking the judgment of the mothers, hath confirmed it upon the children. 4He that loveth God, shall obtain pardon for his sins by prayer, and shall refrain himself from them, and shall be heard in the prayer of days. 5And he that honoureth his mother is as one that layeth up a treasure.…
Cross References
Sirach 3:2
Children, hear the judgment of your father, and so do that you may be saved.

Sirach 3:3
For God hath made the father honourable to the children: and seeking the judgment of the mothers, hath confirmed it upon the children.

Sirach 3:5
And he that honoureth his mother is as one that layeth up a treasure.

Sirach 3:6
He that honoureth his father shall have joy in his own children, and in the day of his prayer he shall be heard.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

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