Sirach 38:10
Good News Translation
Confess all your sins and determine that in the future you will live a righteous life.

New Revised Standard Version
Give up your faults and direct your hands rightly, and cleanse your heart from all sin.

Contemporary English Version
Give up all your sins and decide to do right.

New American Bible
Flee wickedness and purify your hands; cleanse your heart of every sin.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Turn away from sin and order thy hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from all offence.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Turn away from sin and order thy hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from all offence.

Sirach 38:8
For the peace of God is over all the face of the earth.

Sirach 38:9
My son, in thy sickness neglect not thyself, but pray to the Lord, and he shall heal thee.

Sirach 38:11
Give a sweet savour, and a memorial of fine flour, and make a fat offering, and then give place to the physician.

Sirach 38:12
For the Lord created him: and let him not depart from thee, for his works are necessary.

Context
Sirach 38
9My son, in thy sickness neglect not thyself, but pray to the Lord, and he shall heal thee. 10Turn away from sin and order thy hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from all offence. 11Give a sweet savour, and a memorial of fine flour, and make a fat offering, and then give place to the physician.…
Cross References
Sirach 38:8
For the peace of God is over all the face of the earth.

Sirach 38:9
My son, in thy sickness neglect not thyself, but pray to the Lord, and he shall heal thee.

Sirach 38:11
Give a sweet savour, and a memorial of fine flour, and make a fat offering, and then give place to the physician.

Sirach 38:12
For the Lord created him: and let him not depart from thee, for his works are necessary.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 38:9
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