Tobit 4:13
Good News Translation
Son, be loyal to your own relatives. Don't be too proud to marry one of them. Such pride leads to terrible frustration and ruin, just as laziness brings on severe poverty and causes starvation.

New Revised Standard Version
So now, my son, love your kindred, and in your heart do not disdain your kindred, the sons and daughters of your people, by refusing to take a wife for yourself from among them. For in pride there is ruin and great confusion. And in idleness there is loss and dire poverty, because idleness is the mother of famine.

Contemporary English Version
Have love in your heart for the people of your own nation. Don't be proud and think you are too good to marry an Israelite woman. Pride like that will confuse and destroy you, just as laziness will make you poor and starving.

New American Bible
Therefore, son, love your kindred. Do not act arrogantly toward any of them, the sons and daughters of your people, by refusing to take a wife for yourself from among them. For in arrogance there is ruin and great instability. In idleness there is loss and dire poverty, for idleness is the mother of famine.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Take heed to keep thyself, my son, from all fornication, and beside thy wife never endure to know a crime.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Take heed to keep thyself, my son, from all fornication, and beside thy wife never endure to know a crime.

Tobit 4:11
For alms deliver from all sin, and from death, and will not suffer the soul to go into darkness.

Tobit 4:12
Alms shall be a great confidence before the most high God, to all them that give it.

Tobit 4:14
Never suffer pride to reign in thy mind, or in thy words: for from it all perdition took its beginning.

Tobit 4:15
If any man hath done any work for thee, immediately pay him his hire, and let not the wages of thy hired servant stay with thee at all.

Context
Tobit 4
12Alms shall be a great confidence before the most high God, to all them that give it. 13Take heed to keep thyself, my son, from all fornication, and beside thy wife never endure to know a crime. 14Never suffer pride to reign in thy mind, or in thy words: for from it all perdition took its beginning.…
Cross References
Tobit 4:11
For alms deliver from all sin, and from death, and will not suffer the soul to go into darkness.

Tobit 4:12
Alms shall be a great confidence before the most high God, to all them that give it.

Tobit 4:14
Never suffer pride to reign in thy mind, or in thy words: for from it all perdition took its beginning.

Tobit 4:15
If any man hath done any work for thee, immediately pay him his hire, and let not the wages of thy hired servant stay with thee at all.



(T To Tob Tobias)

Tobit 4:12
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