17 Be ashamed of sexual immorality before father and mother, of a lie before a prince and a mighty man, (WEB)
Sirach 41:17
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Sirach 3:9–11
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Sirach 42:1–2
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Sirach 4:24–26
24 For wisdom will be known by speech, and instruction by the word of the tongue. (WEB) 25 Don’t speak against the truth and be shamed for your ignorance. (WEB) 26 Don’t be ashamed to confess your sins. Don’t fight the river’s current. (WEB)
Sirach 7:6–8
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Testament of Judah 3:17–19
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Sirach 4:20–22
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Sirach 23:13–15
13 Don’t accustom your mouth to gross rudeness, for it involves sinful speech. (WEB) 14 Remember your father and your mother, for you sit in the midst of great men, that you be not forgetful before them, and become a fool by your bad habit; so you may wish that you had no… (WEB)
Ephesians 5:11–13
11 Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. 13 But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for everything that is illuminated becomes a light itself.
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