Tobit 12:7-9

Wycliffe Bible

⁷ For it is good to hide the private (or the secret) of an earthly king; but it is worshipful to show and acknowledge the works of God.

⁸ Prayer is good with fasting, and with alms-[deeds], more than to hide treasures of gold;

⁹ for why alms-[deeds] delivereth from death, and those alms(-deeds) it is that purgeth sins, and maketh man to find everlasting life.