Sirach 12:3
Good News Translation
No good ever comes to a person who gives comfort to the wicked; it is not a righteous act.

New Revised Standard Version
No good comes to one who persists in evil or to one who does not give alms.

Contemporary English Version
But you will have no success if you keep doing evil and refuse to give to the poor. *

New American Bible
No good comes to those who give comfort to the wicked, nor is it an act of mercy that they do.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For there is no good for him that is always occupied in evil, and that giveth no alms: for the Highest hateth sinners, and hath mercy on the penitent.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For there is no good for him that is always occupied in evil, and that giveth no alms: for the Highest hateth sinners, and hath mercy on the penitent.

Sirach 12:1
If thou do good, know to whom thou dost it, and there shall be much thanks for thy good deeds.

Sirach 12:2
Do good to the just, and thou shalt find great recompense: and if not of him, assuredly of the Lord.

Sirach 12:4
Give to the merciful and uphold not the sinner: God will repay vengeance to the ungodly and to sinners, and keep them against the day of vengeance.

Sirach 12:5
Give to the good, and receive not a sinner.

Context
Sirach 12
2Do good to the just, and thou shalt find great recompense: and if not of him, assuredly of the Lord. 3For there is no good for him that is always occupied in evil, and that giveth no alms: for the Highest hateth sinners, and hath mercy on the penitent. 4Give to the merciful and uphold not the sinner: God will repay vengeance to the ungodly and to sinners, and keep them against the day of vengeance.…
Cross References
Sirach 12:1
If thou do good, know to whom thou dost it, and there shall be much thanks for thy good deeds.

Sirach 12:2
Do good to the just, and thou shalt find great recompense: and if not of him, assuredly of the Lord.

Sirach 12:4
Give to the merciful and uphold not the sinner: God will repay vengeance to the ungodly and to sinners, and keep them against the day of vengeance.

Sirach 12:5
Give to the good, and receive not a sinner.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

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