Tobit 4:7–20

⁷Give alms out of thy substance, and turn not away thy face from any poor person: for so it shall come to pass that the face of the Lord shall not be turned from thee.

⁸According to thy ability be merciful.

⁹If thou have much give abundantly: if thou have little, take care even so to bestow willingly a little.

¹⁰For thus thou storest up to thyself a good reward for the day of necessity.

¹¹For alms deliver from all sin, and from death, and will not suffer the soul to go into darkness.

¹²Alms shall be a great confidence before the most high God, to all them that give it.

¹³Take heed to keep thyself, my son, from all fornication, and beside thy wife never endure to know a crime.

¹⁴Never suffer pride to reign in thy mind, or in thy words: for from it all perdition took its beginning.

¹⁵If any man hath done any work for thee, immediately pay him his hire, and let not the wages of thy hired servant stay with thee at all.

¹⁶See thou never do to another what thou wouldst hate to have done to thee by another.

¹⁷Eat thy bread with the hungry and the needy, and with thy garments cover the naked,

¹⁸Lay out thy bread, and thy wine upon the burial of a just man, and do not eat and drink thereof with the wicked.

¹⁹Seek counsel always of a wise man.

²⁰Bless God at all times: and desire of him to direct thy ways, and that all thy counsels may abide in him.