12 If you do good, know to whom you do it,

and you will be thanked for your good deeds.

2 Do good to the devout, and you will be repaid—

if not by them, certainly by the Most High.

3 No good comes to one who persists in evil

or to one who does not give alms.

4 Give to the devout, but do not help the sinner.

5 Do good to the humble, but do not give to the ungodly;

hold back their bread, and do not give it to them,

for by means of it they might subdue you;

then you will receive twice as much evil

for all the good you have done to them.

6 For the Most High also hates sinners

and will inflict punishment on the ungodly.a

7 Give to the one who is good, but do not help the sinner.