Sirach 23:2-14
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2 Who will set scourges over my thoughts, and the discipline of wisdom over mine heart? that they spare me not for mine ignorances, and it pass not by my sins:
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3 Lest mine ignorances increase, and my sins abound to my destruction, and I fall before mine adversaries, and mine enemy rejoice over me, whose hope is far from thy mercy.
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4 O Lord, Father and God of my life, give me not a proud look, but turn away from thy servants always a haughty mind.
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5 Turn away from me vain hopes and concupiscence, and thou shalt hold him up that is desirous always to serve thee.
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6 Let not the greediness of the belly nor lust of the flesh take hold of me; and give not over me thy servant into an impudent mind.
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7 Hear, O ye children, the discipline of the mouth: he that keepeth it shall never be taken in his lips.
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8 The sinner shall be left in his foolishness: both the evil speaker and the proud shall fall thereby.
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9 Accustom not thy mouth to swearing; neither use thyself to the naming of the Holy One.
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10 For as a servant that is continually beaten shall not be without a blue mark: so he that sweareth and nameth God continually shall not be faultless.
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11 A man that useth much swearing shall be filled with iniquity, and the plague shall never depart from his house: if he shall offend, his sin shall be upon him: and if he acknowledge not his sin, he maketh a double offence: and if he swear in vain, he shall not be innocent, but his house shall be full of calamities.
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12 There is a word that is clothed about with death: God grant that it be not found in the heritage of Jacob; for all such things shall be far from the godly, and they shall not wallow in their sins.
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13 Use not thy mouth to intemperate swearing, for therein is the word of sin.
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14 Remember thy father and thy mother, when thou sittest among great men. Be not forgetful before them, and so thou by thy custom become a fool, and wish that thou hadst not been born, and curse they day of thy nativity.