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.