Good is almsgiving as penance for sin. Fasting is better than prayer, and almsgiving better than both.
2And love covers a multitude of sins, but prayer from a good conscience delivers from death.
3Blessed is everyone who is found full of these things, for almsgiving lightens sin.
4Let us repent, therefore, from the whole heart, that none of us may perish by the way.
5For if we have commandments to do also this: to turn the ungodly from idols and instruct them.
6How much more should a soul that already knows God not perish.
7Let us therefore help one another, and also raise up the weak in what concerns the good.
8That we all may be saved; and let us convert and exhort one another.