Other translations
New Catholic Bible
Do not kindle the coals of a sinner, lest you be burned in his flaming fire.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Do not kindle the coals of sinners, or you may be burned in their flaming fire.
Good News Translation®
You should not provide a sinner with more opportunity to sin. You might get hurt yourself; it's as easy as getting burned while adding logs to a fire.
Wycliffe Bible
Kindle thou not the coals of sinners, and reprove them; and be thou not burnt with the flame of [the] fire of their sins.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Do not kindle the coals of a sinner, lest you be burned in his flaming fire.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Do not kindle the coals of sinners, or you may be burned in their flaming fire.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Do not kindle the coals of sinners, or you may be burned in their flaming fire.
Common English Bible © 2011
Don’t stoke up the coals of a sinner, and don’t let his fire set you ablaze.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Do not kindle the coals of sinners, lest you be burned in their flaming fire.
Revised Standard Version
Do not kindle the coals of a sinner, lest you be burned in his flaming fire.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
Do not kindle the coals of sinners, or you may be burned in their flaming fire.