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Tobit 4:16 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Give of your bread to the hungry, and of your garments to those who are naked. Give alms from all your abundance. Don’t let your eye be envious when you give alms. "

Tobit 4:16

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14 Don’t let the wages of any man who works for you wait with you, but give it to him out of hand. If you serve God, you will be rewarded. Take heed to yourself, my child, in all your works, and be discreet in all your behavior.

15 And what you yourself hate, do to no man. Don’t drink wine to drunkenness, and don’t let drunkenness go with you on your way.

16 Give of your bread to the hungry, and of your garments to those who are naked. Give alms from all your abundance. Don’t let your eye be envious when you give alms.

17 Pour out your bread on the burial of the just, and give nothing to sinners.

18 Ask counsel of every man who is wise, and don’t despise any counsel that is profitable.

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Tobit 4:1

"In that day Tobit remembered the money which he had left in trust with Gabael in Rages of Media,"

Tobit 4:2

"and he said to himself, I have asked for death; why do I not call my son Tobias, that I may explain to him about the money before I die?"

Tobit 4:3

"And he called him, and said, “My child, if I die, bury me. Don’t despise your mother. Honor her all the days of your life, and do that which is pleasing to her, and don’t grieve her."

Tobit 4:4

"Remember, my child, that she has seen many dangers for you, when you were in her womb. When she is dead, bury her by me in one grave."

Tobit 4:5

"My child, be mindful of the Lord our God all your days, and don’t let your will be set to sin and to transgress his commandments: do righteousness all the days of your life, and don’t follow the ways of unrighteousness."

Tobit 4:6

"For if you do what is true, your deeds will prosperously succeed for you, and for all those who do righteousness."

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