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WisdomSirach 9:10–18
Sirach 9:10–18 gives practical wisdom about friendship, influence, counsel, and speech. It moves from personal relationships to public behaviour, showing that the people we trust and the words we speak both carry serious consequences.
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WisdomSirach 10:1–5
Sirach 10:1–5 teaches that leadership matters greatly. This wisdom passage links good rule with understanding, warns about undisciplined rulers, and places human government under the Lord’s authority.
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WisdomSirach 10:6–18
Sirach 10:6–18 warns against anger, violence, and pride. It keeps bringing the reader back to a hard truth: human life is frail, but the Lord can bring down the proud and lift up the lowly.
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WisdomSirach 10:19–25
This wisdom passage measures honour in a surprising way. It mentions family, rulers, rich and poor people, yet keeps returning to one standard: fearing the Lord matters more than status, wealth, or position.
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WisdomSirach 10:26–11:6
This wisdom passage warns against boasting and against judging people by wealth, looks, clothes, or rank.
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WisdomSirach 11:7–9
These sayings in Sirach teach careful listening, patient understanding, and wise restraint.
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WisdomSirach 11:10–19
Sirach 11:10–19 warns that restless effort and gathered wealth cannot guarantee safety or control.
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WisdomSirach 11:20–28
Sirach 11:20–28 teaches patient faithfulness and careful judgement. It warns against being impressed by present success, crushed by present weakness, or too confident in present comfort.
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WisdomSirach 11:29–34
This wisdom passage warns against giving easy access to a deceitful person. It uses sharp comparisons to show how pride, blame and quarrels can enter a household and damage both reputation and family relationships.
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WisdomSirach 12:1–7
Sirach 12:1–7 is wisdom about giving with care. The teacher does not praise thoughtless aid, but tells the reader to consider whom they are helping and what their help may support.
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WisdomSirach 12:8–18
Sirach 12:8–18 warns that friendly behaviour can hide hostility. Through short sayings and strong comparisons, the passage teaches caution, especially because hardship can reveal both weak friendship and concealed enmity.
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WisdomSirach 13:1–14
Sirach 13:1–13 warns readers to be cautious around proud, rich, and mighty people. Through sharp comparisons and direct advice, this wisdom passage shows how unequal power can expose a weaker person to harm.
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WisdomSirach 13:15–24
Sirach 13:15–24 is a wisdom passage that observes how people group together and how wealth can twist friendship, respect and public judgement.
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WisdomSirach 13:25–14:2
These sayings in Sirach connect the inner life with what can be seen and heard. They move from the face, to wise sayings, to blessing for a person whose speech, conscience and hope are not burdened.
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WisdomSirach 14:3–19
Sirach 14:3–19 warns against clinging tightly to possessions. It contrasts the misery of the miser with the wise use of what a person has, especially while life is still available.
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WisdomSirach 14:20–15:10
Sirach describes wisdom with pictures of searching, staying near, shelter and food. The passage teaches that wisdom is worth pursuing carefully, and it links that pursuit with fearing the Lord and possessing the law.
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WisdomSirach 15:11–20
Sirach 15:11–20 answers a serious excuse: blaming God for sin. This wisdom passage says God does not cause what he hates, and it calls readers to take responsibility for their choices.
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WisdomSirach 16:17–23
This wisdom passage warns against thinking anyone is too small or too hidden for the Lord to notice.
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WisdomSirach 16:24–17:14
This passage invites the reader to listen carefully as Sirach explains the Lord’s ordered creation, human limits, and the gifts given to people.
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WisdomSirach 17:15–23
This wisdom passage says that God fully sees human conduct. It also says he especially remembers kindness, and that he will repay people afterwards.
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WisdomSirach 17:24–32
Sirach 17:24–32 is a wisdom passage from the Catholic additional books. It urges people to turn back to God now, while they still live, and it ties repentance, prayer, thanksgiving, mercy, and human weakness closely together.
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WisdomSirach 18:1–14
Sirach 18:1–14 sets God’s greatness beside the shortness of human life. It moves from what cannot be measured about the Lord to why his patience, mercy, correction and forgiveness matter for people.
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WisdomSirach 18:15–18
Sirach teaches that giving is not only about the gift itself. In these sayings, words matter too.
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WisdomSirach 18:19–29
Sirach 18:19–29 offers short wisdom sayings about acting early rather than late. The passage urges learning, self-examination, repentance, careful promises, and steady awareness that times of ease can quickly give way to need.
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