Sirach 27:16-18

Good News Translation

Betraying Secrets

^16 (A)If you repeat secrets that have been told to you, you are destroying the confidence others have in you, and you will never have a close friend. ¹⁷ Respect your friends, and keep faith with them. If you do betray a friend's confidence, you may as well forget you have a friend. ¹⁸ You have killed that friendship just as surely as if you had taken a weapon and killed an enemy.