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The original Revised Standard Version served as a standard for nearly forty years. The New Revised Standard Version with Apocrypha maintains the traditions of the older version with fresh new vocabulary and modern English construction.

Two kinds of individuals multiply sins, and a third incurs wrath. Hot passion that blazes like a fire will not be quenched until it burns itself out; one who commits fornication with his near of kin will never cease until the fire burns him up. To a fornicator all bread is sweet; he will never weary until he dies. The one who sins against his marriage bed says to himself, “Who can see me? Darkness surrounds me, the walls hide me, ...
Sirach 23:16–21