OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 12:1

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If you do good, know to whom you do it, and your good deeds will have thanks.

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Verse 1. To whom. All must not be admitted into the house, nor treated with marks of particular esteem. Yet daily alms must be given without too scrupulous an enquiry. Lu. 6:30. Calmet.—It would be wrong to encourage sinners, who would run to their ruin. But we must relieve the penitent. Worthington.

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