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Sirach 2:3-5
Common English Bible
Sirach 2:3-5
Common English Bible
3 Hold fast to God
and don’t keep your distance from him,
so that you may find strength
at your end.
4 Accept whatever happens to you,
and be patient
when you suffer humiliation,
5 because gold is tested with fire,
and acceptable people are tested
in the furnace of humiliation.[a]
Footnotes
- Sirach 2:5 b adds to 2:5 In sickness and in poverty trust in him.
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