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15 in the day of your distress it will be remembered in your favor;
    like frost in fair weather, your sins will melt away.
16 Whoever forsakes a father is like a blasphemer,
    and whoever angers a mother is cursed by the Lord.

Humility

17 My child, perform your tasks with humility;[a]
    then you will be loved by those whom God accepts.

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 3:17 Heb: Gk meekness

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