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CHAPTER 23
O Lord, Father and Governor of all my whole life, leave me not to their counsels, and let me not
fall by them.
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Who will set scourges over my thoughts, and the discipline of wisdom over mine heart? that
they spare me not for mine ignorances, and it pass not by my sins:
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Lest mine ignorances increase, and my sins abound to my destruction, and I fall before mine
adversaries, and mine enemy rejoice over me, whose hope is far from thy mercy.
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O Lord, Father and God of my life, give me not a proud look, but turn away from thy servants
always a haughty mind.
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Turn away from me vain hopes and concupiscence, and thou shalt hold him up that is desirous
always to serve thee.
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Let not the greediness of the belly nor lust of the flesh take hold of me; and give not over me
thy servant into an impudent mind.
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Hear, O ye children, the discipline of the mouth: he that keepeth it shall never be taken in his
lips.
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The sinner shall be left in his foolishness: both the evil speaker and the proud shall fall thereby.
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Accustom not thy mouth to swearing; neither use thyself to the naming of the Holy One.
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For as a servant that is continually beaten shall not be without a blue mark: so he that sweareth
and nameth God continually shall not be faultless.
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A man that useth much swearing shall be filled with iniquity, and the plague shall never depart
from his house: if he shall offend, his sin shall be upon him: and if he acknowledge not his sin, he
maketh a double offence: and if he swear in vain, he shall not be innocent, but his house shall be
full of calamities.
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There is a word that is clothed about with death: God grant that it be not found in the heritage
of Jacob; for all such things shall be far from the godly, and they shall not wallow in their sins.
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Use not thy mouth to intemperate swearing, for therein is the word of sin.
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Remember thy father and thy mother, when thou sittest among great men. Be not forgetful
before them, and so thou by thy custom become a fool, and wish that thou hadst not been born, and
curse they day of thy nativity.
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The man that is accustomed to opprobrious words will never be reformed all the days of his
life.
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Two sorts of men multiply sin, and the third will bring wrath: a hot mind is as a burning fire,
it will never be quenched till it be consumed: a fornicator in the body of his flesh will never cease
till he hath kindled a fire.
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All bread is sweet to a whoremonger, he will not leave off till he die.
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A man that breaketh wedlock, saying thus in his heart, Who seeth me? I am compassed about
with darkness, the walls cover me, and no body seeth me; what need I to fear? the most High will
not remember my sins:
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