Sirach 3:30

³⁰ Water will quench a flaming fire; almsgiving will make atonement for sins. (WEB)

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Tobit 12:8–10

⁸ Good is prayer with fasting, alms, and righteousness. A little with righteousness is better than much with unrighteousness. It is better to give alms than to lay up gold. (WEB) ⁹ Alms delivers from death, and it purges away all sin. Those who give alms and do righteou… (WEB)

Sirach 29:11–13

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… (WEB)

Tobit 4:10–12

¹⁰ because alms-giving delivers from death, and doesn’t allow you to come into darkness. (WEB) ¹¹ Alms is a good gift in the sight of the Most High for all that give it. (WEB) ¹² Beware, my child, of all fornication, and take first a wife of the seed of your fathers. Don’t take a s… (WEB)

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)

2 Clement 16:3–4

³ But ye know that the day of judgment cometh even now as a burning oven, and the powers of the heavens shall melt, and all the earth as lead melting on the fire, and then shall appear the secret and open works of men. (2CL) ⁴ Almsgiving therefore is a good thing, even… (2CL)

Sirach 40:16–18

¹⁶ The reeds by every water or river bank will be plucked up before all grass. (WEB) ¹⁷ Kindness is like a garden of blessings. Almsgiving endures forever. (WEB) ¹⁸ The life of one who labors and is content will be made sweet. He who finds a treasure is better than both. (WEB)

Sirach 3:13–15

¹³ If he fails in understanding, have patience with him. Don’t dishonor him in your full strength. (WEB) ¹⁴ For the kindness to your father will not be forgotten. Instead of sins it will be added to build you up. (WEB) ¹⁵ In the day of your affliction it will be remembered for you,… (WEB)

Sirach 17:21–23

²¹ But the Lord being gracious and knowing his workmanship, neither left nor forsook them, but spared them. (KJV) ²² With him the alms of a man is as a signet. He will keep a man’s kindness as the pupil of the eye. (WEB) ²³ Afterwards he will rise up and repay them, and give their… (WEB)

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