Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Well, be just as careful with what you say. Weigh every word, and have a lock ready for your mouth. Contemporary English Version Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge The death thereof is a most evil death: and hell is preferable to it. Sirach 28:23Blessed is he that is defended from a wicked tongue, that hath not passed into the wrath thereof, and that hath not drawn the yoke thereof, and hath not been bound in its bands. Sirach 28:24 For its yoke is a yoke of iron: and its bands are bands of brass. Sirach 28:26 Its continuance shall not be for a long time, but it shall possess the ways of the unjust: and the just shall not be burnt with its flame. Sirach 28:27 They that forsake God shall fall into it, and it shall burn in them, and shall not be quenched, and it shall be sent upon them as a lion, and as a leopard it shall tear them. Context Sirach 28…24For its yoke is a yoke of iron: and its bands are bands of brass. 25The death thereof is a most evil death: and hell is preferable to it. 26Its continuance shall not be for a long time, but it shall possess the ways of the unjust: and the just shall not be burnt with its flame.… Cross References Sirach 28:23 Blessed is he that is defended from a wicked tongue, that hath not passed into the wrath thereof, and that hath not drawn the yoke thereof, and hath not been bound in its bands. Sirach 28:24 For its yoke is a yoke of iron: and its bands are bands of brass. Sirach 28:26 Its continuance shall not be for a long time, but it shall possess the ways of the unjust: and the just shall not be burnt with its flame. Sirach 28:27 They that forsake God shall fall into it, and it shall burn in them, and shall not be quenched, and it shall be sent upon them as a lion, and as a leopard it shall tear them. |
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