Sirach 24:17-26
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17 As the vine brought I forth pleasant savour, and my flowers are the fruit of honour and riches.
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18 I am the mother of fair love, and fear, and knowledge, and holy hope: I therefore, being eternal, am given to all my children which are named of him.
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19 Come unto me, all ye that be desirous of me, and fill yourselves with my fruits.
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20 For my memorial is sweeter than honey, and mine inheritance than the honeycomb.
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21 They that eat me shall yet be hungry, and they that drink me shall yet be thirsty.
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22 He that obeyeth me shall never be confounded, and they that work by me shall not do amiss.
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23 All these things are the book of the covenant of the most high God, even the law which Moses commanded for an heritage unto the congregations of Jacob.
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24 Faint not to be strong in the Lord; that he may confirm you, cleave unto him: for the Lord Almighty is God alone, and beside him there is no other Saviour.
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25 He filleth all things with his wisdom, as Phison and as Tigris in the time of the new fruits.
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26 He maketh the understanding to abound like Euphrates, and as Jordan in the time of the harvest.