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Wisdom of Solomon 11:21–12:2
This passage from Wisdom of Solomon, in the Catholic additional books, joins two ideas that are often separated: God’s immense power and his patient mercy. The speaker praises the Lord as strong, loving, preserving, and corrective.
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Wisdom of Solomon 15:14–16:4
This passage contrasts the worship of lifeless idols with the living God's justice and care. It shows why the oppressors are called foolish, how their objects of worship are exposed as powerless, and how punishment and provision are set side by side.
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Wisdom of Solomon 17:14–18:4
This passage sets two groups side by side. One is trapped in fear and darkness, while God’s holy people receive light and guidance. The writer uses strong images to show judgement on oppressors and care for those who belong to God.
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Sirach 16:1–16 (source bridge 15–16)
Sirach 16:1–14 warns against trusting in numbers, whether in a family or a crowd. The passage says godliness, understanding, mercy, and God’s just judgement matter more than how many people there are.
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Sirach 19:13–19 (source bridge 18–19)
Sirach 19:13–17 gives practical wisdom for handling accusations and harmful speech. Rather than rushing to believe or threaten someone, it teaches careful questioning, restraint, and correction shaped by the law of the Most High.
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Sirach 26:13–27 (source bridge 19–27)
This wisdom passage from Sirach, praises qualities seen in a wife. It joins inner qualities such as knowledge and self-control with poetic descriptions of beauty, using comparisons to show their worth.
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Sirach 3:30–4:10
This wisdom passage links generosity with how a person treats vulnerable people. Giving matters, but so do timing, speech, humility, and action when someone is poor, distressed, or wronged.
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Sirach 5:9–6:1
This wisdom passage warns against unstable speech. It links double-tongued words with shame, but it also shows a better way: steady understanding, careful listening, patient answers, and silence when a person does not know what to say.
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Sirach 10:26–11:6
This wisdom passage warns against boasting and against judging people by wealth, looks, clothes, or rank. It points readers toward humility, steady work, and the limits of outward honour.
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Sirach 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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Sirach 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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Sirach 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. It moves from the world’s boundaries to human understanding, praise, law, covenant, and neighbourly responsibility.
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Sirach 18:30–19:3
This wisdom passage warns that unchecked desires can damage reputation, judgement, and finances. It moves from inner appetite to spending habits, then to drink and sexual recklessness, urging self-restraint before ruin grows.
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Sirach 22:27–23:6
This prayer from Sirach asks God for help with words, thoughts, attitudes, and desires. It shows that harmful speech and inward sins are connected, and it asks for wise restraint before sin grows.
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Sirach 26:28–27:3
This wisdom passage names painful wrongs, then warns that profit and buying and selling can become places where sin enters. Its final line calls for a person to hold diligently to the fear of the Lord.
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Sirach 27:30–28:7
This wisdom passage from Sirach, warns against wrath, anger and vengeance. It urges forgiveness and uses sharp questions to show that ongoing anger does not fit with asking the Lord for mercy, healing and pardon.
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Sirach 32:14–33:6
This wisdom passage teaches a careful way to live: fear the Lord, receive correction, seek counsel, watch your steps, and prepare your words. It contrasts wise trust in the law with proud, unstable foolishness.
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Sirach 38:24–39:11
This wisdom passage contrasts necessary manual labour with the scribe's work of study and prayer. It calls artisans indispensable to city life, yet reserves particular public roles and scribal wisdom for those with leisure. The distinction reflects the teacher's ancient social outlook as well as his praise of skilled work.
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Sirach 41:14–42:8
This wisdom passage distinguishes kinds of shame. Alongside truth, justice and honest dealings, its list of things not to be ashamed of includes coercive household prescriptions. Read both parts as the teacher's ancient counsel, keeping the text's claims separate from modern applications.
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Single lessonJeremiah 34:1–22
While Jerusalem was under threat, the people promised to free their Hebrew servants, then broke that promise, and Jeremiah announced God's judgement.
Baruch 1:15–2:10
This confession speaks with honesty about guilt, shame, and suffering. It repeats that the Lord is righteous, while the people admit they have sinned, refused to listen, and now live with the consequences of disobedience.
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Baruch 3:32–4:4
This passage praises God as the one who knows all things and rules creation, then says he gave knowledge to Israel in his enduring law. It moves from God’s unmatched greatness to a call for Jacob to take hold of what God has made known.
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Baruch 4:36–5:9
This passage from the Catholic additional book of Baruch speaks to Jerusalem with words of hope. It calls the city to look, rise, and change from mourning to glory because God will gather her children and lead them back with joy.
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Daniel (Greek) 2:20–23; Daniel (Greek) 2:31–45
These verses join Daniel’s praise to God with the report and explanation of the king’s dream. They show who gives wisdom, who rules over kings, and what Daniel says about kingdoms that rise, weaken and finally give way.
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