Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation No matter how many children you have, don't look on them with pride unless they fear the Lord. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Trust not to their life, and respect not their labours. Sirach 15:22For he desireth not a multitude of faithless and unprofitable children. Sirach 16:1 Rejoice not in ungodly children, if they be multiplied: neither be delighted in them, if the fear of God be not with them. Sirach 16:3 For better is one that feareth God, than a thousand ungodly children. Sirach 16:4 And it is better to die without children, than to leave ungodly children. Context Sirach 16…1Rejoice not in ungodly children, if they be multiplied: neither be delighted in them, if the fear of God be not with them. 2Trust not to their life, and respect not their labours. 3For better is one that feareth God, than a thousand ungodly children.… Cross References Sirach 15:22 For he desireth not a multitude of faithless and unprofitable children. Sirach 16:1 Rejoice not in ungodly children, if they be multiplied: neither be delighted in them, if the fear of God be not with them. Sirach 16:3 For better is one that feareth God, than a thousand ungodly children. Sirach 16:4 And it is better to die without children, than to leave ungodly children. |