2 Don’t exalt yourself in the counsel of your soul, that your soul not be torn in pieces like a bull. (WEB) 3 You will eat up your leaves, destroy your fruit, and leave yourself like a dry tree. (WEB) 4 A wicked soul will destroy him who has it, and will make him a laughing stock to his enemies. (WEB)
Sirach 6:2–4
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Sirach 18:30–32
30 Don’t go after your lusts. Restrain your appetites. (WEB) 31 If you give fully to your soul the delight of her desire, she will make you the laughing stock of your enemies. (WEB) 32 Don’t make merry in much luxury, and don’t be tied to its expense. (WEB)
Sirach 19:2–4
2 Wine and women will make men of understanding go astray. He who joins with prostitutes is reckless. (WEB) 3 Decay and worms will have him as their heritage. A reckless soul will be taken away. (WEB) 4 He who is hasty to trust is shallow-hearted. He who sins offends against his… (WEB)
Tobit 12:9–11
9 Alms delivers from death, and it purges away all sin. Those who give alms and do righteousness will be filled with life; (WEB) 10 but those who sin are enemies to their own life. (WEB) 11 Surely I will conceal nothing from you. I have said, ‘It is good to conceal the secret of a… (WEB)
Sirach 21:26–28
26 The heart of fools is in their mouth, but the mouth of wise men is their heart. (WEB) 27 When the ungodly curses an adversary, he curses his own soul. (WEB) 28 A whisperer defiles his own soul, and will be hated wherever he travels. (WEB)
1 Samuel 12:24–25
24 Above all, fear the LORD and serve Him faithfully with all your heart; consider what great things He has done for you. 25 But if you persist in doing evil, both you and your king will be swept away.”
Sirach 1:29–30
29 Don’t be a hypocrite in men’s sight. Keep watch over your lips. (WEB) 30 Don’t exalt yourself, lest you fall and bring dishonor upon your soul. The Lord will reveal your secrets and will cast you down in the midst of the congregation, because you didn’t come to the fea… (WEB)
Proverbs 5:10–12
10 lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner. 11 At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent, 12 and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
Wisdom of Solomon 1:11–13
11 Beware then of unprofitable murmuring, and keep your tongue from slander; because no secret utterance will go on its way void, and a lying mouth destroys a soul. (WEB) 12 Don’t court death in the error of your life. Don’t draw destruction upon yourselves by the works o… (WEB)
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