Sirach 7:21
Good News Translation
Show the same love to wise servants that you would show to yourself, and let them have their freedom.

New Revised Standard Version
Let your soul love intelligent slaves; do not withhold from them their freedom.

Contemporary English Version
If you have wise slaves, love them as much as you love yourself and set them free when you are supposed to.

New American Bible
Love wise servants as yourself; do not refuse them freedom.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Depart not from a wise and good wife, whom thou hast gotten in the fear of the Lord: for the grace of her modesty is above gold.

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Depart not from a wise and good wife, whom thou hast gotten in the fear of the Lord: for the grace of her modesty is above gold.

Sirach 7:19
Humble thy spirit very much: for the vengeance on the flesh of the ungodly is fire and worms.

Sirach 7:20
Do not transgress against thy friend deferring money, nor despise thy dear brother for the sake of gold.

Sirach 7:22
Hurt not the servant that worketh faithfully, nor the hired man that giveth thee his life.

Sirach 7:23
Let a wise servant be dear to thee as thy own soul, defraud him not of liberty, nor leave him needy.

Context
Sirach 7
20Do not transgress against thy friend deferring money, nor despise thy dear brother for the sake of gold. 21Depart not from a wise and good wife, whom thou hast gotten in the fear of the Lord: for the grace of her modesty is above gold. 22Hurt not the servant that worketh faithfully, nor the hired man that giveth thee his life.…
Cross References
Sirach 7:19
Humble thy spirit very much: for the vengeance on the flesh of the ungodly is fire and worms.

Sirach 7:20
Do not transgress against thy friend deferring money, nor despise thy dear brother for the sake of gold.

Sirach 7:22
Hurt not the servant that worketh faithfully, nor the hired man that giveth thee his life.

Sirach 7:23
Let a wise servant be dear to thee as thy own soul, defraud him not of liberty, nor leave him needy.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 7:20
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