Tobit 12:6-18

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁶ Then he said to them secretly: Bless ye the God of heaven, give glory to him in the sight of all that live, because he hath shewn his mercy to you.

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.

¹⁰ But they that commit sin and iniquity, are enemies to their own soul.

¹¹ I discover then the truth unto you, and I will not hide the secret from you.

¹² When thou didst pray with tears, and didst bury the dead, and didst leave thy dinner, and hide the dead by day in thy house, and bury them by night, I offered thy prayer to the Lord.

¹³ And because thou wast acceptable to God, it was necessary that temptation should prove thee.

¹⁴ And now the Lord hath sent me to heal thee, and to deliver Sara thy son's wife from the devil.

¹⁵ For I am the angel Raphael, one of the seven, who stand before the Lord.

¹⁶ And when they had heard these things, they were troubled, and being seized with fear they fell upon the ground on their face.

¹⁷ And the angel said to them: Peace be to you, fear not.

¹⁸ For when I was with you, I was there by the will of God: bless ye him, and sing praises to him.