Fundar 8 Resultados para: almsgiving

• Prayer is good when accompanied by fasting, almsgiving, and righteousness. A little with righteousness is better than much with wrongdoing. It is better to give alms than to treasure up gold. (Tobit 12, 8)

• For almsgiving delivers from death, and it will purge away every sin. Those who perform deeds of charity and of righteousness will have fulness of life; (Tobit 12, 9)

• So now, my children, consider what almsgiving accomplishes and how righteousness delivers." As he said this he died in his bed. He was a hundred and fifty-eight years old; and Tobias gave him a magnificent funeral. (Tobit 14, 11)

• Water extinguishes a blazing fire: so almsgiving atones for sin. (Ecclesiasticus 4, 30)

• A man's almsgiving is like a signet with the Lord and he will keep a person's kindness like the apple of his eye. (Ecclesiasticus 18, 22)

• Store up almsgiving in your treasury, and it will rescue you from all affliction; (Ecclesiasticus 30, 12)

• Kindness is like a garden of blessings, and almsgiving endures for ever. (Ecclesiasticus 41, 17)

• Brothers and help are for a time of trouble, but almsgiving rescues better than both. (Ecclesiasticus 41, 24)