Give alms from your possessions. When you give alms, don’t let your eye be envious. Don’t turn away your face from any poor man, and the face of God won’t be turned away from you.
⛓ Read Tobit 4 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Tobit's almsgiving instruction — give to the poor and do not turn your face away, laying up a good treasure against the day of necessity — parallels Jesus' counsel to give where no repayment is possible. Deuterocanonical availability and coherence with Luke's almsgiving theology (cf. Luke 12:33).
Low confidenceDeuterocanonical exhortation to mercy/almsgiving that obtains divine favor; background to 'blessed are the merciful.'
Low confidence