Sirach 3:11
Good News Translation
Your own honor comes from the respect that you show to your father. If children do not honor their mothers, it is their own disgrace.

New Revised Standard Version
The glory of one’s father is one’s own glory, and it is a disgrace for children not to respect their mother.

Contemporary English Version
What brings honor to them also brings honor to you.

New American Bible
A father’s glory is glory also for oneself; they multiply sin who demean their mother.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The father's blessing establisheth the houses of the children: but the mother's curse rooteth up the foundation.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The father's blessing establisheth the houses of the children: but the mother's curse rooteth up the foundation.

Sirach 3:9
Honour thy father, in work and word, and all patience,

Sirach 3:10
That a blessing may come upon thee from him, and his blessing may remain in the latter end.

Sirach 3:12
Glory not in the dishonour of thy father: for his shame is no glory to thee.

Sirach 3:13
For the glory of a man is from the honour of his father, and a father without honour is the disgrace of the son.

Context
Sirach 3
10That a blessing may come upon thee from him, and his blessing may remain in the latter end. 11The father's blessing establisheth the houses of the children: but the mother's curse rooteth up the foundation. 12Glory not in the dishonour of thy father: for his shame is no glory to thee.…
Cross References
Sirach 3:9
Honour thy father, in work and word, and all patience,

Sirach 3:10
That a blessing may come upon thee from him, and his blessing may remain in the latter end.

Sirach 3:12
Glory not in the dishonour of thy father: for his shame is no glory to thee.

Sirach 3:13
For the glory of a man is from the honour of his father, and a father without honour is the disgrace of the son.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 3:10
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