Sirach 3:15
Good News Translation
When you are in trouble, the Lord will remember your kindness and will help you; your sins will melt away like frost in warm sunshine.

New Revised Standard Version
in the day of your distress it will be remembered in your favor; like frost in fair weather, your sins will melt away.

Contemporary English Version
And if you later have troubles because of your sins, they will all melt away in the warmth of your kindness, like frost in the sunshine.

New American Bible
In time of trouble it will be recalled to your advantage, like warmth upon frost it will melt away your sins.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And if his understanding fail, have patience with him, and despise him not when thou art in thy strength: for the relieving of the father shall not be forgotten.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And if his understanding fail, have patience with him, and despise him not when thou art in thy strength: for the relieving of the father shall not be forgotten.

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.

Sirach 3:14
Son, support the old age of thy father, and grieve him not in his life;

Sirach 3:16
For good shall be repaid to thee for the sin of thy mother.

Sirach 3:17
And in justice thou shalt be built up, and in the day of affliction thou shalt be remembered: and thy sins shall melt away as the ice in the fair warm weather.

Context
Sirach 3
14Son, support the old age of thy father, and grieve him not in his life; 15And if his understanding fail, have patience with him, and despise him not when thou art in thy strength: for the relieving of the father shall not be forgotten. 16For good shall be repaid to thee for the sin of thy mother.…
Cross References
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.

Sirach 3:14
Son, support the old age of thy father, and grieve him not in his life;

Sirach 3:16
For good shall be repaid to thee for the sin of thy mother.

Sirach 3:17
And in justice thou shalt be built up, and in the day of affliction thou shalt be remembered: and thy sins shall melt away as the ice in the fair warm weather.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 3:14
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