- But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?
- Thus says the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another, do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.
- And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
- Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
- For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!
- By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
- Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.
- Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend,
and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity.
Better is a neighbor who is near
than a brother who is far away. - Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.
- If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.
- For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.
- Is not this the fast that I choose:
to loose the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the straps of the yoke,
to let the oppressed go free,
and to break every yoke? - No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
- Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times.”
- Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up your hand;
forget not the afflicted. - You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.
- Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
- Give justice to the weak and the fatherless;
maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. - And he answered them, “Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.”
- Honor widows who are truly widows.
- If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.
- There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
- It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave.
- Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man's envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
- So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church.
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