Sirach 3:8-10

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁸Honor your father by word and deed,
that a blessing from him may come upon you.
⁹For a father’s blessing strengthens the houses of the children,
but a mother’s curse uproots their foundations.

¹⁰Do not glorify yourself by dishonoring your father,
for your father’s dishonor is no glory to you.

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