Verse (Click for Chapter) Contemporary English Version He raised our people Israel as his own first-born child, with loving care, but also with discipline. Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge The alms of a man is as a signet with him, and shall preserve the grace of a man as the apple of the eye: Sirach 17:16And all their works are as the sun in the sight of God: and his eyes are continually upon their ways. Sirach 17:17 Their covenants were not hid by their iniquity, and all their iniquities are in the sight of God. Sirach 17:19 And afterward he shall rise up, and shall render them their reward, to every one upon their own head, and shall turn them down into the bowels of the earth. Sirach 17:20 But to the penitent he hath given the way of justice, and he hath strengthened them that were fainting in patience, and hath appointed to them the lot of truth. Context Sirach 17…17Their covenants were not hid by their iniquity, and all their iniquities are in the sight of God. 18The alms of a man is as a signet with him, and shall preserve the grace of a man as the apple of the eye: 19And afterward he shall rise up, and shall render them their reward, to every one upon their own head, and shall turn them down into the bowels of the earth.… Cross References Sirach 17:16 And all their works are as the sun in the sight of God: and his eyes are continually upon their ways. Sirach 17:17 Their covenants were not hid by their iniquity, and all their iniquities are in the sight of God. Sirach 17:19 And afterward he shall rise up, and shall render them their reward, to every one upon their own head, and shall turn them down into the bowels of the earth. Sirach 17:20 But to the penitent he hath given the way of justice, and he hath strengthened them that were fainting in patience, and hath appointed to them the lot of truth. |