22 For it is better that your children should ask from you than that you should look to the hand of your children. (WEB)
Sirach 33:22
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Sirach 4:30–31
30 Don’t be like a lion in your house, or suspicious of your servants. (WEB) 31 Don’t let your hand be stretched out to receive, and closed when you should repay. (WEB)
2 Corinthians 12:13–15
13 In what way were you inferior to the other churches, except that I was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong! 14 See, I am ready to come to you a third time, and I will not be a burden, because I am not seeking your possessions, but you. For children should… 15 …
Sirach 4:1–2
1 My son, don’t deprive the poor of his living. Don’t make the needy eyes wait long. (WEB) 2 Don’t make a hungry soul sorrowful, or provoke a man in his distress. (WEB)
Sirach 3:11–13
11 For the glory of a man is from the honor of his father, and a mother in dishonor is a reproach to her children. (WEB) 12 My son, help your father in his old age, and don’t grieve him as long as he lives. (WEB) 13 If he fails in understanding, have patience with him. Don’t dishon… (WEB)
Sirach 7:22–24
22 Do you have cattle? Look after them. If they are profitable to you, let them stay by you. (WEB) 23 Do you have children? Correct them, and make them obedient from their youth. (WEB) 24 Do you have daughters? Take care of their bodies, and don’t be overly indulgent toward them. (WEB)
Tobit 5:17–19
17 But Anna his mother wept, and said to Tobit, “Why have you sent away our child? Isn’t he the staff of our hand, in going in and out before us? (WEB) 18 Don’t be greedy to add money to money; but let it be as refuse compared to our child. (WEB) 19 For what the Lord has given us t… (WEB)
Sirach 7:27–29
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 the things that they have done for you? (WEB) 29 Fear the Lord with all your soul; and revere his priests. (WEB)
Sirach 40:27–29
27 The fear of the Lord is like a garden of blessing and covers a man more than any glory. (WEB) 28 My son, don’t lead a beggar’s life. It is better to die than to beg. (WEB) 29 A man who looks to the table of another, his life is not to be considered a life. He will pollute his so… (WEB)
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