Sirach 5:3-5

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³Do not say, ‘Who can have power over me?’
for the Lord will surely punish you.

⁴Do not say, ‘I sinned, yet what has happened to me?’
for the Lord is slow to anger.
⁵Do not be so confident of forgiveness^[a]
that you add sin to sin.

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Sirach 5:5 Heb: Gk atonement

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised (NRSVA)

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