Sirach 2:16
Good News Translation
Those who fear and love the Lord will try to please him and devote themselves to the Law.

New Revised Standard Version
Those who fear the Lord seek to please him, and those who love him are filled with his law.

Contemporary English Version
You will try to please him and to be completely faithful to his Law.

New American Bible
Those who fear the Lord seek to please him; those who love him are filled with his law.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Woe to them that have lost patience, and that have forsaken the right ways, and have gone aside into crooked ways.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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 2:15
Woe to them that are fainthearted, who believe not God: and therefore they shall not be protected by him.

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

Sirach 2:18
They that fear the Lord, will not be incredulous to his word: and they that love him, will keep his way.

Context
Sirach 2
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. 17And what will they do, when the Lord shall begin to examine?…
Cross References
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 2:15
Woe to them that are fainthearted, who believe not God: and therefore they shall not be protected by him.

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

Sirach 2:18
They that fear the Lord, will not be incredulous to his word: and they that love him, will keep his way.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 2:15
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