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It is good to keep close the secret of a king, but it is honorable to reveal the works of God. Do that which is good, and no evil shall touch you.
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Prayer is good with fasting and almsgiving and righteousness; a little with righteousness is better than much with unrighteousness. It is better to give alms than to lay up gold,
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for almsgiving doth deliver from death, and shall purge away all sin. Those that exercise almsgiving and righteousness shall be filled with life,
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but they that sin are enemies to their own life.
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"Surely I will keep close nothing from you. For I said it was good to keep close the secret of a king, but that it was honorable to reveal the works of God.
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Now therefore, when thou didst pray, and Sarah thy daughter-in-law, I brought the remembrance of your prayers before the Holy One; and when thou didst bury the dead, I was with thee likewise.
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And when thou didst not delay to rise up and leave thy dinner to go and cover the dead, thy good deed was not hid from me; but I was with thee.
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And now God hath sent me to heal thee and Sarah thy daughter-in-law.
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I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels, who present the prayers of the saints and who go in and out before the glory of the Holy One."
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Then they were both troubled, and fell upon their faces; for they feared.
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But he said unto them, "Fear not, for it shall go well with you; praise God therefore.