Sirach 7:8

⁸ Don’t commit a sin twice, for even in one you will not be unpunished. (WEB)

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Sirach 5:4–6

⁴ Don’t say, “I sinned, and what happened to me?” for the Lord is patient. (WEB) ⁵ Don’t be so confident of atonement that you add sin upon sins. (WEB) ⁶ Don’t say, “His compassion is great. He will be pacified for the multitude of my sins,” for mercy and wrath are with him, and… (WEB)

Sirach 8:4–6

⁴ Don’t make fun of a rude man, lest your ancestors be dishonored. (WEB) ⁵ Don’t reproach a man when he turns from sin. Remember that we are all worthy of punishment. (WEB) ⁶ Don’t dishonor a man in his old age, for some of us are also growing old. (WEB)

Sirach 21:2–4

² Flee from sin as from the face of a snake; for if you go near, it will bite you. Its teeth are like lion’s teeth, slaying people’s souls. (WEB) ³ All iniquity is as a two-edged sword. Its stroke has no healing. (WEB) ⁴ Terror and violence will waste away riches. So the house o… (WEB)

Sirach 7:15–17

¹⁵ Don’t hate hard labor or farm work, which the Most High has created. (WEB) ¹⁶ Don’t number yourself among the multitude of sinners. Remember that wrath will not wait. (WEB) ¹⁷ Humble your soul greatly, for the punishment of the ungodly man is fire and the worm. (WEB)

Sirach 32:18–20

¹⁸ A sensible person won’t neglect a thought. An insolent and proud man won’t crouch in fear, even after he has done a thing by himself without counsel. (WEB) ¹⁹ Do nothing without counsel, but when you have acted, don’t regret it. (WEB) ²⁰ Don’t go in a way of conflict. Don’t stum… (WEB)

Sirach 7:2–4

² Depart from wrong, and it will turn away from you. (WEB) ³ My son, don’t sow upon the furrows of unrighteousness, and you won’t reap them sevenfold. (WEB) ⁴ Don’t seek preeminence from the Lord, nor the seat of honor from the king. (WEB)

Testament of Gad 1:34–36

³⁴ For God brought upon me a disease of the liver; and had not the prayers of Jacob my father succoured me, it had hardly failed but my spirit had departed. (T12) ³⁵ For by what things a man transgresseth by the same also is he punished . (T12) ³⁶ Since, therefore, my liver was set… (T12)

Sirach 19:12–14

¹² As an arrow that sticks in the flesh of the thigh, so is gossip in a fool. (WEB) ¹³ Question a friend; it may be he didn’t do it. If he did something, it may be that he may do it no more. (WEB) ¹⁴ Question your neighbor; it may be he didn’t say it. If he has said it, it may be t… (WEB)

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