Monks, there are these five benefits of giving.

What five?

(1) One is dear and agreeable to many people.

(2) Wholesome persons go in large numbers to one (you).

(3) One acquires a wholesome reputation.

(4) One is not deficient in the Householder’s duties.

(5) With the breakup of the body, after death, one is reborn in a good destination, in a heavenly world.

These are the five benefits of giving.

By giving, one becomes dear, one follows the duty of the wholesome; the wholesome mentally disciplined Monks always go in large numbers to one (you).

They teach one The Teachings that dispels all discontentedness, having understood which the taintless one here attains Nibbāna (Enlightenment).