Found 145 Results for: Shame

• In every situation weigh the pros and cons and avoid evil. A wrong kind of shame could harm you. (Ecclesiasticus 4, 20)

• There is a shame which leads to sin and there is a shame which merits praise and respect. (Ecclesiasticus 4, 21)

• Do not act against your better self to win favor from others. Do not let this kind of shame lead you into sin. (Ecclesiasticus 4, 22)

• Have no shame in confessing your sins, do not swim against the tide. (Ecclesiasticus 4, 26)

• Do not let yourself be known as a scandalmonger or a deceiver. For if shame is the lot of the robber, severe condemnation is the lot of the liar. (Ecclesiasticus 5, 14)

• Do not sin in big things nor in little things, and from being a friend do not turn into an enemy. An evil reputation brings in its train shame and disgrace; such is the lot of the sinner who is accustomed to lying. (Ecclesiasticus 5, 15)

• Just as the wicked man inherits confusion and shame so will the sinner accustomed to lying. (Ecclesiasticus 6, 1)

• Wine and women corrupt the best of men; whoever frequents prostitutes loses all sense of shame. (Ecclesiasticus 19, 2)

• One loses his soul out of false shame; he loses himself for fear of what a foolish man thinks. (Ecclesiasticus 20, 22)

• Out of false shame he wants to win a friend; he gets an enemy, in fact, for nothing. (Ecclesiasticus 20, 23)

• Badly brought up sons are the shame of their father, and daughters, a humiliation. (Ecclesiasticus 22, 3)

• She will leave behind a cursed memory and her shame will never be blotted out. (Ecclesiasticus 23, 26)