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Ben Sira 29:21
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Ben Sira 29:21
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The essentials for life are water and bread and clothing and a house to cover one's nakedness.
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The sinner who has fallen into suretyship and pursues gain will fall into lawsuits.
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Assist your neighbor according to your ability, but take heed to yourself lest you fall.
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The essentials for life are water and bread and clothing and a house to cover one's nakedness.
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Better is the life of a poor man under the shelter of his roof than sumptuous food in another man's house.
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Be content with little or much.
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.