7. For it is good to conceal the secret of a king, just as it is also honorable to reveal and to confess the works of God.
8. Prayer with fasting is good, and almsgiving is better than hiding away gold in storage.
9. For almsgiving delivers from death, and the same is what purges sins and makes one able to find mercy and everlasting life.
10. But those who commit sin and iniquity are enemies to their own soul.
11. Therefore, I reveal the truth to you, and I will not hide the explanation from you.
12. When you prayed with tears, and buried the dead, and left behind your dinner, and hid the dead by day in your house, and buried them by night: I offered your prayer to the Lord.
13. And because you were acceptable to God, it was necessary for you to be tested by trials.