Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation If you hear that a friend has done something wrong, ask him about it. Maybe it isn't true. If it is true, he won't do it again. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Reprove a friend, lest he may not have understood, and say: I did it not: or if he did it, that he may do it no more. Sirach 19:11At the hearing of a word the fool is in travail, as a woman groaning in the bringing forth a child. Sirach 19:12 As an arrow that sticketh in a man's thigh: so is a word in the heart of a fool. Sirach 19:14 Reprove thy neighbour, for it may be he hath not said it: and if he hath said it, that he may not say it again. Sirach 19:15 Admonish thy friend: for there is often a fault committed. Context Sirach 19…12As an arrow that sticketh in a man's thigh: so is a word in the heart of a fool. 13Reprove a friend, lest he may not have understood, and say: I did it not: or if he did it, that he may do it no more. 14Reprove thy neighbour, for it may be he hath not said it: and if he hath said it, that he may not say it again.… Cross References Sirach 19:11 At the hearing of a word the fool is in travail, as a woman groaning in the bringing forth a child. Sirach 19:12 As an arrow that sticketh in a man's thigh: so is a word in the heart of a fool. Sirach 19:14 Reprove thy neighbour, for it may be he hath not said it: and if he hath said it, that he may not say it again. Sirach 19:15 Admonish thy friend: for there is often a fault committed. |