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Sirach 23:13

Listen to Sirach 23:13
13 Don't grow accustomed to saying coarse things, because to do so is to engage in sinful speech.

Sirach 23:13 In-Context

11 People who make many solemn pledges will be full of lawlessness, and a scourge won't depart from their house. If they break their solemn pledges, their sin is on them, and if they disregard it, they sin doubly, and if they swear falsely, they won't be justified, but their houses will be full of misery.
12 There is a way of speaking that's comparable to death; don't let it be found among Jacob's descendants. All these things will stay far away from the godly, and they will not wallow in their sins.
13 Don't grow accustomed to saying coarse things, because to do so is to engage in sinful speech.
14 Remember your father and mother, because you sit in the council among officials. This way, you won't forget yourself in front of them and act foolishly out of habit— then you'd wish that you hadn't been born, and you'd curse the day of your birth
15 People who are accustomed to reproachful words will never learn anything their whole life.

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