8
Prayer is good with fasting and alms more than to lay up treasures of gold:
9
For alms delivereth from death, and the same is that which purgeth away sins, and maketh to find mercy and life everlasting.
10
But they that commit sin and iniquity, are enemies to their own soul.
11
I discover then the truth unto you, and I will not hide the secret from you.
12
When thou didst pray with tears, and didst bury the dead, and didst leave thy dinner, and hide the dead by day in thy house, and bury them by night, I offered thy prayer to the Lord.