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If you have many possessions, make your gift from them in proportion; if few, do not be afraid to give according to the little you have.
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So you will be laying up a good treasure for yourself against the day of necessity.
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For charity delivers from death and keeps you from entering the darkness;
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and for all who practice it charity is an excellent offering in the presence of the Most High.
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"Beware, my son, of all immorality. First of all take a wife from among the descendants of your fathers and do not marry a foreign woman, who is not of your father's tribe; for we are the sons of the prophets. Remember, my son, that Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, our fathers of old, all took wives from among their brethren. They were blessed in their children, and their posterity will inherit the land.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.