Sirach 23:14-16
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
14 Remember your father and mother
when[a] you sit among great men;
lest you be forgetful in their presence,
and be deemed a fool on account of your habits;
then you will wish that you had never been born,
and you will curse the day of your birth.
15 A man accustomed to use insulting words
will never become disciplined all his days.
Concerning Sexual Sins
16 Two sorts of men multiply sins,
and a third incurs wrath.
The soul heated like a burning fire
will not be quenched until it is consumed;
a man who commits fornication with his near of kin[b]
will never cease until the fire burns him up.
Footnotes
- Sirach 23:14 Gk for
- Sirach 23:16 Gk in the body of his flesh
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