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The message of the book is that God is both just and free. Suffering is not a punishment but a test. God eventually does reward the just and punish the wicked. The believer is summoned to trust God and live his way. The book is rich in ethical, moral, spiritual principle, and presents the sanctity of Marriage, intercession through Angels, reward of good works, and parental respect, as well as the importance of daily prayer, fasting, and especially almsgiving in expiation of sin (12:9). This last point is taken up by Jesus in Matthew 25:31-46, as an integral part of the realization, or active expression, of faith in God and faithfulness toward God, and by Paul in Romans 2:6-11, by James (in his Letter to the twelve tribes in the dispersion) 2:14-26, and by John (in his First Letter) 3:17-18 and 4:19-21.

The message of the book is that God is both just and free. Suffering is not a punishment but a test. God eventually does reward the just and punish the wicked. The believer is summoned to trust God and live his way. The book is rich in ethical, moral, spiritual principle, and presents the sanctity of Marriage, intercession through Angels, reward of good works, and parental respect, as well as the importance of daily prayer, fasting, and especially almsgiving in expiation of sin (12:9). This last point is taken up by Jesus in Matthew 25:31-46, as an integral part of the realization, or active expression, of faith in God and faithfulness toward God, and by Paul in Romans 2:6-11, by James (in his Letter to the twelve tribes in the dispersion) 2:14-26, and by John (in his First Letter) 3:17-18 and 4:19-21.

==Martin Luther on Tobit==

==Martin Luther's judgment of the Book of Tobit==

See below <br/>[[Book of Tobit#External links|External links: The Table Talk of Martin Luther, by Martin Luther, translated by William Hazlitt, Alexander Chalmers, 1872, pages 11-13]]

"I take the book of Tobit to be a comedy concerning women, an example for house government."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZUAuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA11&lpg=PA11&dq=Martin+Luther+on+the+Book+of+Tobit&source=bl&ots=o2f-ODSQ5i&sig=5akAGrPB7QUCRHbiEqqWxg5Egek&hl=en&sa=X&ei=hqmUVLrgM8_4yQS19IGgAw&ved=0CFYQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=Martin%20Luther%20on%20the%20Book%20of%20Tobit&f=false Martin Luther's Table Talk (1599). page 11] <br/>[http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Religions/Lutherans/truth_about_martin_luther.htm The Truth About Martin Luther] (jesus-is-savior.com)</ref>

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