Sirach 2:15
Good News Translation
Those who fear the Lord do not disobey his commands; those who love him will live as he wants them to live.

New Revised Standard Version
Those who fear the Lord do not disobey his words, and those who love him keep his ways.

Contemporary English Version
If you love the Lord and respect him, you will obey his commands.

New American Bible
Those who fear the Lord do not disobey his words; those who love him keep his ways.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Woe to them that are fainthearted, who believe not God: and therefore they shall not be protected by him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Woe to them that are fainthearted, who believe not God: and therefore they shall not be protected by him.

Sirach 2:13
For God is compassionate and merciful, and will forgive sins in the day of tribulation: and he is a protector to all that seek him in truth.

Sirach 2:14
Woe to them that are of a double heart and to wicked lips, and to the hands that do evil, and to the sinner that goeth on the earth two ways.

Sirach 2:16
Woe to them that have lost patience, and that have forsaken the right ways, and have gone aside into crooked ways.

Sirach 2:17
And what will they do, when the Lord shall begin to examine?

Context
Sirach 2
14Woe to them that are of a double heart and to wicked lips, and to the hands that do evil, and to the sinner that goeth on the earth two ways. 15Woe to them that are fainthearted, who believe not God: and therefore they shall not be protected by him. 16Woe to them that have lost patience, and that have forsaken the right ways, and have gone aside into crooked ways.…
Cross References
Sirach 2:13
For God is compassionate and merciful, and will forgive sins in the day of tribulation: and he is a protector to all that seek him in truth.

Sirach 2:14
Woe to them that are of a double heart and to wicked lips, and to the hands that do evil, and to the sinner that goeth on the earth two ways.

Sirach 2:16
Woe to them that have lost patience, and that have forsaken the right ways, and have gone aside into crooked ways.

Sirach 2:17
And what will they do, when the Lord shall begin to examine?



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 2:14
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