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Sirach 31:24-26
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Sirach 31:24-26
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
24 The city complains of the one who is stingy with food,
and their testimony to his stinginess is accurate.
Temperance in Drinking Wine
25 Do not try to prove your strength by wine-drinking,
for wine has destroyed many.
26 As the furnace tests the work of the smith,[a]
so wine tests hearts when the insolent quarrel.
Footnotes
- Sirach 31:26 Heb: Gk tests the hardening of steel by dipping
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
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