9. If you have much, distribute abundantly. If you have little, nevertheless strive to bestow a little freely.
10. For you store up for yourself a good reward for the day of necessity.
11. For almsgiving liberates from every sin and from death, and it will not suffer the soul to go into darkness.
12. Almsgiving will be a great act of faith before the most high God, for all those who practice it.
13. Take care to keep yourself, my son, from all fornication, and, except for your wife, never permit yourself to know such an offense.
14. Never permit arrogance to rule in your mind or in your words. For in it, all perdition had its beginning.
15. And whoever has done any kind of work for you, immediately pay him his wages, and do not let the wages of your hired hand remain with you at all.