Quotes from Tobit

Quotations follow the King James Version translation (Oxford University Press, 1611) — our recommended edition.

1. 2

   I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels, which present the prayers of the saints, and which go in and out before the glory of the Holy One.

2. 3

   Because that alms do deliver from death, and suffereth not to come into darkness.

3. 4

   Prayer is good with fasting and alms and righteousness. A little with righteousness is better than much with unrighteousness.

4. 5

   And now, O Lord, I take not this my sister for lust but uprightly: therefore mercifully ordain that we may become aged together.

5. 6

   It is good to keep close the secret of a king, but it is honourable to reveal the works of God.

6. 7

   Give of thy bread to the hungry, and of thy garments to them that are naked; and according to thine abundance give alms.

7. 8

   My son, when I am dead, bury me; and despise not thy mother, but honour her all the days of thy life, and do that which shall please her, and grieve her not.

8. 9

   Be not greedy to add money to money: but let it be as refuse in respect of our child.