Sirach 23:6-8

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁶Let neither gluttony nor lust overcome me,
and do not surrender me to a shameless soul.

⁷Listen, my children, to instruction concerning speech;
the one who observes it will never be caught.
⁸The sinner is overtaken through his lips,
the reviler and the arrogant are tripped by them.

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