Sirach 27:17
Good News Translation
Respect your friends, and keep faith with them. If you do betray a friend's confidence, you may as well forget you have a friend.

New Revised Standard Version
Love your friend and keep faith with him; but if you betray his secrets, do not follow after him.

Contemporary English Version
If you don't tell their secrets, your friends will know that you really like them. But if you tell their secrets, they won't want you around,

New American Bible
Cherish your friend, keep faith with him; but if you betray his secrets, do not go after him;

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that discloseth the secret of a friend loseth his credit, and shall never find a friend to his mind.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He that discloseth the secret of a friend loseth his credit, and shall never find a friend to his mind.

Sirach 27:15
The speech that sweareth much shall make the hair of the head stand upright: and its irreverence shall make one stop his ears.

Sirach 27:16
In the quarrels of the road is the shedding of blood: and their cursing is a grievous hearing.

Sirach 27:18
Love thy neighbour, and be joined to him with fidelity.

Sirach 27:19
But if thou discover his secrets, follow no more after him.

Context
Sirach 27
16In the quarrels of the road is the shedding of blood: and their cursing is a grievous hearing. 17He that discloseth the secret of a friend loseth his credit, and shall never find a friend to his mind. 18Love thy neighbour, and be joined to him with fidelity.…
Cross References
Sirach 27:15
The speech that sweareth much shall make the hair of the head stand upright: and its irreverence shall make one stop his ears.

Sirach 27:16
In the quarrels of the road is the shedding of blood: and their cursing is a grievous hearing.

Sirach 27:18
Love thy neighbour, and be joined to him with fidelity.

Sirach 27:19
But if thou discover his secrets, follow no more after him.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 27:16
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