Sirach 27:17
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Show affection to friends and be loyal to them, but if you reveal their secrets, don’t follow after them.
He that discloseth the secret of a friend loseth his credit, and shall never find a friend to his mind.
Respect your friends, and keep faith with them. If you do betray a friend's confidence, you may as well forget you have a friend.
Cherish your friend, keep faith with him; but if you betray his secrets, do not go after him;
Love your friend and keep faith with him, but if you betray his secrets, do not attempt to remain by his side.
Love your friend and keep faith with him; but if you betray his secrets, do not follow after him.
Love your friend and keep faith with him; but if you betray his secrets, do not follow after him.
Love your friend and keep faith with him; but if you betray his secrets, do not follow after him.
Love your friends and keep faith with them, but if you betray their secrets, do not follow after them.
Love your friend and keep faith with him; but if you betray his secrets, do not run after him.
Love your friend and keep faith with him; but if you betray his secrets, do not run after him.
Love thou a neighbour, and be thou joined with him in faith. For (or But) if thou showest openly the privates (or the secrets) of him, thou shalt not perfectly (pur)sue after him. [Love a neighbour, and be thou joined in faith with him. That if thou shall make naked the hid things of him, pursue thou not after him.]
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