Sirach 7:23
Good News Translation
If you have sons, educate them. Teach them self-discipline while they are young.

New Revised Standard Version
Do you have children? Discipline them, and make them obedient from their youth.

Contemporary English Version
While your children are young, teach them to obey you.

New American Bible
Do you have sons? Correct them and cure their stubbornness in their early youth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let a wise servant be dear to thee as thy own soul, defraud him not of liberty, nor leave him needy.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Sirach 7:21
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 7:22
Hurt not the servant that worketh faithfully, nor the hired man that giveth thee his life.

Sirach 7:24
Hast thou cattle? have an eye to them: and if they be for thy profit, keep them with thee.

Sirach 7:25
Hast thou children? instruct them, and bow down their neck from their childhood.

Context
Sirach 7
22Hurt not the servant that worketh faithfully, nor the hired man that giveth thee his life. 23Let a wise servant be dear to thee as thy own soul, defraud him not of liberty, nor leave him needy. 24Hast thou cattle? have an eye to them: and if they be for thy profit, keep them with thee.…
Cross References
Sirach 7:21
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 7:22
Hurt not the servant that worketh faithfully, nor the hired man that giveth thee his life.

Sirach 7:24
Hast thou cattle? have an eye to them: and if they be for thy profit, keep them with thee.

Sirach 7:25
Hast thou children? instruct them, and bow down their neck from their childhood.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 7:22
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