Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Don't try to avoid farm work or other hard labor; the Most High has given us these jobs to do. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Be not full of words in a multitude of ancients, and repeat not the word in thy prayer. Sirach 7:13Devise not a lie against thy brother: neither do the like against thy friend. Sirach 7:14 Be not willing to make any manner of lie: for the custom thereof is not good. Sirach 7:16 Hate not laborious works, nor husbandry ordained by the most High. Sirach 7:17 Number not thyself among the multitude of the disorderly. Context Sirach 7…14Be not willing to make any manner of lie: for the custom thereof is not good. 15Be not full of words in a multitude of ancients, and repeat not the word in thy prayer. 16Hate not laborious works, nor husbandry ordained by the most High.… Cross References Sirach 7:13 Devise not a lie against thy brother: neither do the like against thy friend. Sirach 7:14 Be not willing to make any manner of lie: for the custom thereof is not good. Sirach 7:16 Hate not laborious works, nor husbandry ordained by the most High. Sirach 7:17 Number not thyself among the multitude of the disorderly. |