Good News Translation
When you do a good deed, make sure you know who is benefiting from it; then what you do will not be wasted.

New Revised Standard Version
If you do good, know to whom you do it, and you will be thanked for your good deeds.

Contemporary English Version
Do good to those who deserve it, and they will thank you.

New American Bible
If you do good, know for whom you are doing it, and your kindness will have its effect.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If thou do good, know to whom thou dost it, and there shall be much thanks for thy good deeds.

If thou do good, know to whom thou dost it, and there shall be much thanks for thy good deeds.

Sirach 11:35
Take heed to thyself of a mischievous man, for he worketh evils: lest he bring upon thee reproach for ever.

Sirach 11:36
Receive a stranger in, and he shall overthrow thee with a whirlwind, and shall turn thee out of thy own.

Sirach 12:2
Do good to the just, and thou shalt find great recompense: and if not of him, assuredly of the Lord.

Sirach 12:3
For there is no good for him that is always occupied in evil, and that giveth no alms: for the Highest hateth sinners, and hath mercy on the penitent.