English Bible
Tobit 4
Big screen- 1In that day Tobit remembered the money which he had committed to Gabael in Rages of Media,
- 2And said with himself, I have wished for death; therefore do I not call for my son Tobias that I may signify to him of the money before I die?
- 3And when he had called him, he said, My son, when I am dead, bury me; and despise not your mother, but honor her all the days of your life, and do that which shall please her, and grieve her not.
- 4Remember, my son, that she saw many dangers for you, when you were in her womb: and when she is dead, bury her by me in one grave.
- 5My son, be mindful of the Lord our God all your days, and let not your will be set to sin, or to transgress his commandments: do uprightly all your life long, and follow not the ways of unrighteousness.
- 6For if you deal truly, your doings shall prosperously succeed to you, and to all them that live justly.
- 7Give alms of your substance; and when you give alms, let not your eye be envious, neither turn your face from any poor, and the face of God shall not be turned away from you.
- 8If you have abundance give alms accordingly: if you have but a little, be not afraid to give according to that little:
- 9For you lay up a good treasure for yourself against the day of necessity.
- 10Because that alms do deliver from death, and suffers not to come into darkness.
- 11For alms is a good gift to all that give it in the sight of the most High.
- 12Beware of all whoredom, my son, and chiefly take a wife of the seed of your fathers, and take not a strange woman to wife, which is not of your father's tribe: for we are the children of the prophets, Noe, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: remember, my son, that our fathers from the beginning, even that they all married wives of their own kindred, and were blessed in their children, and their seed shall inherit the land.
- 13Now therefore, my son, love your brethren, and despise not in your heart your brethren, the sons and daughters of your people, in not taking a wife of them: for in pride is destruction and much trouble, and in lewdness is decay and great lack: for lewdness is the mother of famine.
- 14Let not the wages of any man, which has wrought for you, wait with you, but give him it out of hand: for if you serve God, he will also repay you: be circumspect my son, in all things you do, and be wise in all your conversation.
- 15Do that to no man which you hate: drink not wine to make you drunken: neither let drunkenness go with you in your journey.
- 16Give of your bread to the hungry, and of your garments to them that are naked; and according to your abundance give alms: and let not your eye be envious, when you give alms.
- 17Pour out your bread on the burial of the just, but give nothing to the wicked.
- 18Ask counsel of all that are wise, and despise not any counsel that is profitable.
- 19Bless the Lord your God always, and desire of him that your ways may be directed, and that all your paths and counsels may prosper: for every nation has not counsel; but the Lord himself gives all good things, and he humbles whom he will, as he will; now therefore, my son, remember my commandments, neither let them be put out of your mind.
- 20And now I signify this to they that I committed ten talents to Gabael the son of Gabrias at Rages in Media.
- 21And fear not, my son, that we are made poor: for you have much wealth, if you fear God, and depart from all sin, and do that which is pleasing in his sight.