Sirach 23:5-7

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁵ and remove evil desire from me.
⁶Let neither gluttony nor lust overcome me,
and do not give me over to shameless passion.

Discipline of the Tongue^[a]

⁷Listen, my children, to instruction concerning the mouth;
one who observes it will never be caught.

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Sirach 23:7 This heading is included in the Gk text.

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