Sirach 3:17

Humility and charity

17 My child, conduct your affairs with gentleness, and you will be loved more than a person of good repute.

Sirach 3:17 In-Context

15 When you are in trouble, this will be recalled about you; like frost warmed by sunshine, so your sins will melt away.

16 Those who abandon their fathers are like blasphemers, and those who anger their mothers have been cursed by the Lord.

17 My child, conduct your affairs with gentleness, and you will be loved more than a person of good repute.

18 However great you become, humble yourself more, and you will find favor before the Lord, and he is glorified by the humble.

Footnotes

• [a] Heb a person who gives