Sirach 7:13
Good News Translation
Don't tell lies at all. It never does any good.

New Revised Standard Version
Refuse to utter any lie, for it is a habit that results in no good.

Contemporary English Version
or anyone else. No good ever comes from telling lies.

New American Bible
Refuse to tell lie after lie, for it never results in good.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Devise not a lie against thy brother: neither do the like against thy friend.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Devise not a lie against thy brother: neither do the like against thy friend.

Sirach 7:11
Say not: God will have respect to the multitude of my gifts, and when I offer to the most high God, he will accept my offerings.

Sirach 7:12
Laugh no man to scorn in the bitterness of his soul: for there is one that humbleth and exalteth, God who seeth all.

Sirach 7:14
Be not willing to make any manner of lie: for the custom thereof is not good.

Sirach 7:15
Be not full of words in a multitude of ancients, and repeat not the word in thy prayer.

Context
Sirach 7
12Laugh no man to scorn in the bitterness of his soul: for there is one that humbleth and exalteth, God who seeth all. 13Devise not a lie against thy brother: neither do the like against thy friend. 14Be not willing to make any manner of lie: for the custom thereof is not good.…
Cross References
Sirach 7:11
Say not: God will have respect to the multitude of my gifts, and when I offer to the most high God, he will accept my offerings.

Sirach 7:12
Laugh no man to scorn in the bitterness of his soul: for there is one that humbleth and exalteth, God who seeth all.

Sirach 7:14
Be not willing to make any manner of lie: for the custom thereof is not good.

Sirach 7:15
Be not full of words in a multitude of ancients, and repeat not the word in thy prayer.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 7:12
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