Tobit 12:7-9

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁷ For it is good to hide the secret of a king: but honourable to reveal and confess the works of God.

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.