Tobit 12:10

⁸Prayer is good with fasting and alms and righteousness. A little with righteousness is better than much with unrighteousness. It is better to give alms than to lay up gold:

⁹for alms doth deliver from death, and shall purge away all sin. Those that exercise alms and righteousness shall be filled with life:

— Tobit 12:10 —

¹¹Surely I will keep close nothing from you. For I said, It was good to keep close the secret of a king, but that it was honorable to reveal the works of God.

¹²Now therefore, when thou didst pray, and Sarah thy daughter-in-law, I did bring the remembrance of your prayers before the Holy One: and when thou didst bury the dead, I was with thee likewise.