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Ben Sira 27
Ben Sira 27:1-6
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Ben Sira 27:1-6
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1
Many have committed sin for a trifle, and whoever seeks to get rich will avert his eyes.
2
As a stake is driven firmly into a fissure between stones, so sin is wedged in between selling and buying.
3
If a man is not steadfast and zealous in the fear of the Lord, his house will be quickly overthrown.
4
When a sieve is shaken, the refuse remains; so a man's filth remains in his thoughts.
5
The kiln tests the potter's vessels; so the test of a man is in his reasoning.
6
The fruit discloses the cultivation of a tree; so the expression of a thought discloses the cultivation of a man's mind.
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Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.