14 For the kindness to your father will not be forgotten. Instead of sins it will be added to build you up. (WEB) 15 In the day of your affliction it will be remembered for you, as fair weather upon ice, so your sins will also melt away. (WEB) 16 He who forsakes his father is as a blasphemer. He who provokes his mother is cursed by the Lord. (WEB)
Sirach 3:14–16
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Sirach 3:2–4
2 For the Lord honors the father over the children, and has confirmed the judgment of the mother over her sons. (WEB) 3 He who honors his father will make atonement for sins. (WEB) 4 He who gives glory to his mother is as one who lays up treasure. (WEB)
Proverbs 20:19–21
19 He who reveals secrets is a constant gossip; avoid the one who babbles with his lips. 20 Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness. 21 An inheritance gained quickly will not be blessed in the end.
Sirach 7:26–28
26 Do you have a wife who pleases you? Don’t cast her out. But don’t trust yourself to one who is hateful. (WEB) 27 Honor your father with your whole heart, and don’t forget the birth pangs of your mother. (WEB) 28 Remember that you were born of them. What will you repay them for t… (WEB)
Sirach 3:8–10
8 Honor your father in deed and word, that a blessing may come upon you from him. (WEB) 9 For the blessing of the father establishes the houses of children, but the curse of the mother roots out the foundations. (WEB) 10 Don’t glorify yourself in the dishonor of your father, for… (WEB)
Proverbs 30:10–12
10 Do not slander a servant to his master, or he will curse you, and you will bear the guilt. 11 There is a generation of those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers. 12 There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of t…
Sirach 41:5–7
5 The children of sinners are abominable children and they frequent the dwellings of the ungodly. (WEB) 6 The inheritance of sinners’ children will perish and with their posterity will be a perpetual disgrace. (WEB) 7 Children will complain of an ungodly father, because they suf… (WEB)
Proverbs 23:21–23
21 For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags. 22 Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old. 23 Invest in truth and never sell it— in wisdom and instruction and understandi…
Psalms of Solomon 10:1–3
1 Happy is the man whom the Lord remembereth with reproving, And whom He restraineth from the way of evil with strokes That he may be cleansed from sin, that it may not be multiplied. (PSS) 2 He that maketh ready his back for strokes shall be cleansed, For the Lord is g… (PSS)
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