Sirach 15:2
Good News Translation
She will come to welcome you, like a mother or a young bride.

New Revised Standard Version
She will come to meet him like a mother, and like a young bride she will welcome him.

Contemporary English Version
She will care for you like your own mother and welcome you, as a bride welcomes her husband.

New American Bible
She will meet him like a mother; like a young bride she will receive him,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And she will meet him as an honourable mother, and will receive him as a wife married of a virgin.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And she will meet him as an honourable mother, and will receive him as a wife married of a virgin.

Sirach 14:27
He shall be protected under her covering from the heat, and shall rest in her glory.

Sirach 15:1
He that feareth God, will do good: and he that possesseth justice, shall lay hold on her,

Sirach 15:3
With the bread of life and understanding, she shall feed him, and give him the water of wholesome wisdom to drink: and she shall be made strong in him, and he shall not be moved.

Sirach 15:4
And she shall hold him fast, and he shall not be confounded: and she shall exalt him among his neighbours.

Context
Sirach 15
1He that feareth God, will do good: and he that possesseth justice, shall lay hold on her, 2And she will meet him as an honourable mother, and will receive him as a wife married of a virgin. 3With the bread of life and understanding, she shall feed him, and give him the water of wholesome wisdom to drink: and she shall be made strong in him, and he shall not be moved.…
Cross References
Sirach 14:27
He shall be protected under her covering from the heat, and shall rest in her glory.

Sirach 15:1
He that feareth God, will do good: and he that possesseth justice, shall lay hold on her,

Sirach 15:3
With the bread of life and understanding, she shall feed him, and give him the water of wholesome wisdom to drink: and she shall be made strong in him, and he shall not be moved.

Sirach 15:4
And she shall hold him fast, and he shall not be confounded: and she shall exalt him among his neighbours.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 15:1
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