11 Allocate your treasure according to the commandments of the Most High and it will profit you more than gold. (WEB) 12 Store up almsgiving in your store-chambers and it will deliver you out of all affliction. (WEB) 13 It will fight for you against your enemy better than a mighty shield and a ponderous spear. (WEB)
Sirach 29:11–13
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Tobit 4:8–10
8 As your possessions are, give alms of it according to your abundance. If you have little, don’t be afraid to give alms according to that little; (WEB) 9 for you lay up a good treasure for yourself against the day of necessity; (WEB) 10 because alms-giving delivers from death, a… (WEB)
Job 22:24–26
24 and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines, 25 then the Almighty will be your gold and the finest silver for you. 26 Surely then you will delight in the Almighty and lift up your face to God.
2 Enoch 51:2–4
2 Hide not your silver in the earth. (2EN) 3 Help the faithful man in affliction, and affliction will not find you in the time of your trouble. (2EN) 4 And every grievous and cruel yoke that come upon you bear all for the sake of the Lord, and thus you will find your reward in t… (2EN)
Sirach 41:11–13
11 The mourning of men is about their bodies; but the evil name of sinners will be blotted out. (WEB) 12 Have regard for your name, for it continues with you longer than a thousand great treasures of gold. (WEB) 13 A good life has its number of days, but a good name continues forev… (WEB)
Proverbs 8:20–22
20 I walk in the way of righteousness, along the paths of justice, 21 bestowing wealth on those who love me and making their treasuries full. 22 The LORD created me as His first course, before His works of old.
Sirach 5:1–2
1 Don’t set your heart upon your goods. Don’t say, “They are sufficient for me.” (WEB) 2 Don’t follow your own mind and your strength to walk in the desires of your heart. (WEB)
Deuteronomy 32:33–35
33 Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras. 34 “Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults? 35 Vengeance is Mine; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quic…
Sirach 40:23–25
23 A friend and a companion is always welcome, and a wife with her husband is better than both. (WEB) 24 Relatives and helpers are for a time of affliction, but almsgiving rescues better than both. (WEB) 25 Gold and silver will make the foot stand sure, and counsel is esteemed bett… (WEB)
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