1. If you do good, know for whom you are doing it,and your kindness will have its effect.
2. Do good to the righteous and reward will be yours,if not from them, from the Lord.
3. No good comes to those who give comfort to the wicked,nor is it an act of mercy that they do.
4. Give to the good but refuse the sinner;
5. refresh the downtrodden but give nothing to the proud.No arms for combat should you give them,lest they use these against you;Twofold evil you will obtain for every good deed you do for them.
6. For God also hates sinners,and takes vengeance on evildoers.
8. In prosperity we cannot know our friends;in adversity an enemy will not remain concealed.
9. When one is successful even an enemy is friendly;but in adversity even a friend disappears.