Sirach 12:1
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If you do good, know for whom you do it, and there’ll be gratitude for your good deeds.
If thou do good, know to whom thou dost it, and there shall be much thanks for thy good deeds.
When you do a good deed, make sure you know who is benefiting from it; then what you do will not be wasted.
If you do good, know for whom you are doing it, and your kindness will have its effect.
If you do good, know for whom you are doing it, and your good deeds will have their desired effect.
If you do good, know to whom you do it, and you will be thanked for your good deeds.
If you do good, know to whom you do it, and you will be thanked for your good deeds.
If you do good, know to whom you do it, and you will be thanked for your good deeds.
If you do good, know to whom you do it, and you will be thanked for your good deeds.
If you do a kindness, know to whom you do it, and you will be thanked for your good deeds.
If you do a kindness, know to whom you do it, and you will be thanked for your good deeds.
If thou doest well, know thou to whom thou doest (it); and much grace shall be to thy goods (or for thy good doings). [If thou shalt well do, know thou to whom thou shalt well do; and there shall be much grace in thy goods.]
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