Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation When you make friends, don't be too quick to trust them; make sure that they have proved themselves. Contemporary English Version Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge If thou wouldst get a friend, try him before thou takest him, and do not credit him easily. Sirach 6:5A sweet word multiplieth friends, and appeaseth enemies, and a gracious tongue in a good man aboundeth. Sirach 6:6 Be in peace with many, but let one of a thousand be thy counsellor. Sirach 6:8 For there is a friend for his own occasion, and he will not abide in the day of thy trouble. Sirach 6:9 And there is a friend that turneth to enmity; and there is a friend that will disclose hatred and strife and reproaches. Context Sirach 6…6Be in peace with many, but let one of a thousand be thy counsellor. 7If thou wouldst get a friend, try him before thou takest him, and do not credit him easily. 8For there is a friend for his own occasion, and he will not abide in the day of thy trouble.… Cross References Sirach 6:5 A sweet word multiplieth friends, and appeaseth enemies, and a gracious tongue in a good man aboundeth. Sirach 6:6 Be in peace with many, but let one of a thousand be thy counsellor. Sirach 6:8 For there is a friend for his own occasion, and he will not abide in the day of thy trouble. Sirach 6:9 And there is a friend that turneth to enmity; and there is a friend that will disclose hatred and strife and reproaches. |
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