For charity delivers from death and keeps you from entering the darkness;
Giving assistance to the poor rescues a person from death and keeps a person from going down into darkness.
For you store up for yourself a good reward for the day of necessity.
For thus thou storest up to thyself a good reward for the day of necessity.
Taking care of the poor is the kind of offering that pleases God in heaven. Do this, and you will be kept safe from the dark world of the dead.
because alms-giving delivers from death, and doesn’t allow you to come into darkness.
Giving to the poor will keep you from going down into the dark world of the dead.