1Whoever observes the law multiplies oblations. 2It is a salutary sacrifice to attend to the commandments and to withdraw from all iniquity. 3And to depart from injustice is to offer a propitiatory sacrifice for injustices and a supplication for sins. 4Whoever gives thanks, offers a gift of fine flour, and whoever acts with mercy, offers a sacrifice. 5To withdraw from iniquity is well-pleasing to the Lord. And to withdraw from injustice is a supplication for sins. 6You should not appear empty before the sight of the Lord. 7For all these things are to be done because of the commandment of God. 8The oblation of the just fattens the altar, and is a fragrance of sweetness in the sight of the Most High. 9The sacrifice of the just is acceptable, and the Lord will never forget the memorial of it. 10Render glory to God with a good heart. And you should not reduce the first-fruits of your hands. 11With every gift, have a cheerful countenance, and sanctify your tithes with exultation. 12Give to the Most High according to his gifts to you, and act with a good eye toward the creations of your hands.
5Gather his holy ones to him, you who order his covenant above sacrifices. 6And the heavens will announce his justice. For God is the judge. 7Listen, my people, and I will speak. Listen, Israel, and I will testify for you. I am God, your God. 8I will not reprove you for your sacrifices. Moreover, your holocausts are ever in my sight. 9I will not accept calves from your house, nor he-goats from your flocks. 10For all the wild beasts of the forest are mine: the cattle on the hills and the oxen. 11I know all the flying things of the air, and the beauty of the field is with me. 12If I should be hungry, I would not tell you: for the whole world is mine, and all its plentitude. 13Shall I gnaw on the flesh of bulls? Or would I drink the blood of goats? 14Offer to God the sacrifice of praise, and pay your vows to the Most High. 15And call upon me in the day of tribulation. I will rescue you, and you will honor me. 16But to the sinner, God has said: Why do you discourse on my justices, and take up my covenant through your mouth? 17Truly, you have hated discipline, and you have cast my sermons behind you. 18If you saw a thief, you ran with him, and you have placed your portion with adulterers. 19Your mouth has abounded with malice, and your tongue has concocted deceits. 20Sitting, you spoke against your brother, and you set up a scandal against your mother’s son. 21These things you have done, and I was silent. You thought, unjustly, that I ought to be like you. But I will reprove you, and I will set myself against your face. 22Understand these things, you who forget God; lest at any time, he might quickly take you away, and there would be no one to rescue you. 23The sacrifice of praise will honor me. And in that place is the journey by which I will reveal to him the salvation of God.
28And Peter began to say to him, “Behold, we have left all things and have followed you.” 29In response, Jesus said: “Amen I say to you, There is no one who has left behind house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or land, for my sake and for the Gospel, 30who will not receive one hundred times as much, now in this time: houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and land, with persecutions, and in the future age eternal life. 31But many of the first shall be last, and the last shall be first.”