Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Don't criticize someone if he is already turning away from sin. Remember that we are all guilty. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Communicate not with an ignorant man, lest he speak ill of thy family. Sirach 8:3For gold and silver hath destroyed many, and hath reached even to the heart of kings, and perverted them. Sirach 8:4 Strive not with a man that is full of tongue, and heap not wood upon his fire. Sirach 8:6 Despise not a man that turneth away from sin, nor reproach him therewith: remember that we are all worthy of reproof. Sirach 8:7 Despise not a man in his old age; for we also shall become old. Context Sirach 8…4Strive not with a man that is full of tongue, and heap not wood upon his fire. 5Communicate not with an ignorant man, lest he speak ill of thy family. 6Despise not a man that turneth away from sin, nor reproach him therewith: remember that we are all worthy of reproof.… Cross References Sirach 8:3 For gold and silver hath destroyed many, and hath reached even to the heart of kings, and perverted them. Sirach 8:4 Strive not with a man that is full of tongue, and heap not wood upon his fire. Sirach 8:6 Despise not a man that turneth away from sin, nor reproach him therewith: remember that we are all worthy of reproof. Sirach 8:7 Despise not a man in his old age; for we also shall become old. |
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