# Sirach 16:3

**Apocrypha.** Not part of the 66-book Protestant canon. Catholic and Orthodox churches accept these books as deuterocanonical.

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- Edition: kjv-apocrypha
- Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/sirach/16/3
- Book: [Sirach](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/sirach)
- Chapter: [Sirach 16](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/sirach/16)
- Background: https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/sirach#background-and-history
- JSON: https://apologetics.wiki/api/apocrypha/sirach/16/3
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Trust not thou in their life, neither respect their multitude: for one that is just is better than a thousand; and better it is to die without children, than to have them that are ungodly.