Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Many people have sinned while looking for a profit; if you want to be rich you have to keep blinders on your eyes. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Through poverty many have sinned: and he that seeketh to be enriched, turneth away his eye. Sirach 26:27And he that passeth over from justice to sin, God hath prepared such an one for the sword. Sirach 26:28 Two sorts of callings have appeared to me hard and dangerous: a merchant is hardly free from negligence: and a huckster shall not be justified from the sins of the lips. Sirach 27:2 As a stake sticketh fast in the midst of the joining of stones, so also in the midst of selling and buying, sin shall stick fast. Sirach 27:3 Sin shall be destroyed with the sinner. Context Sirach 27… 1Through poverty many have sinned: and he that seeketh to be enriched, turneth away his eye. 2As a stake sticketh fast in the midst of the joining of stones, so also in the midst of selling and buying, sin shall stick fast.… Cross References Sirach 26:27 And he that passeth over from justice to sin, God hath prepared such an one for the sword. Sirach 26:28 Two sorts of callings have appeared to me hard and dangerous: a merchant is hardly free from negligence: and a huckster shall not be justified from the sins of the lips. Sirach 27:2 As a stake sticketh fast in the midst of the joining of stones, so also in the midst of selling and buying, sin shall stick fast. Sirach 27:3 Sin shall be destroyed with the sinner. |