Sirach 24:21-23

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²¹Those who eat of me will hunger for more,
and those who drink of me will thirst for more.
²²Whoever obeys me will not be put to shame,
and those who work with me will not sin.’

Wisdom and the Law

²³All this is the book of the covenant of the Most High God,
the law that Moses commanded us
as an inheritance for the congregations of Jacob.^[a]

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Footnotes

Sirach 24:23 Other ancient authorities add as verse 24, ‘Do not cease to be strong in the Lord, cling to him so that he may strengthen you; the Lord Almighty alone is God, and besides him there is no saviour.’

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