Sirach 18:28-30

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²⁸Every intelligent person knows wisdom,
and praises one who finds her.
²⁹Those who are skilled in words become wise themselves,
and pour forth apt proverbs.^[a]

Self-Control^[b]

³⁰Do not follow your base desires,
but restrain your appetites.

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Footnotes

Sirach 18:29 Other ancient authorities add Better is confidence in the one Lord than clinging with a dead heart to a dead one.
Sirach 18:30 This heading is included in the Gk text.

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