Neighbor (2/3)

If anyone is rich in worldly possessions and sees a brother in… 1 John 3:17

If anyone is rich in worldly possessions
and sees a brother in need
but refuses to open his heart,
how can the love of God abide in him?
1 John 3:17 money compassion love
Thus says the Lord of hosts: Render fair judgments, and show kindness and compassion to one another. Do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor. Do not plot evil in your heart against one another.
Zechariah 7:9-10 evil righteousness gentleness

The second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
Matthew 22:39 law love
Beloved,
let us love one another,
because love is from God.
Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
1 John 4:7 love friendship rebirth
And if one should fall,
his companion will help him up.
How pathetic is the man who is alone and falls
and has no one to assist him to his feet.
Ecclesiastes 4:10 relationships friendship
This is how we know what love is:
he laid down his life for us,
and we in turn must be prepared
to lay down our lives for our brethren.
1 John 3:16 love Jesus
Therefore, accept one another for the glory of God, just as Christ has accepted you.
Romans 15:7 Jesus worship
Do not forsake your friend or the friend of your father,
and do not run to your brother’s house when troubles befall you;
far better is a friend nearby
than a brother who is far away.
Proverbs 27:10 friendship family
Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
Luke 6:36 goodness Father
As much as possible, and to the extent of your ability, live in peace with everyone.
Romans 12:18 peace life
In view of all this, you should make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with endurance, and endurance with piety, and piety with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love.
2 Peter 1:5-7 faith goodness self-control
This rather is the type of fast that I wish:
to loosen the fetters of injustice,
to undo the thongs of the yoke,
to set free those who are oppressed
and to break every yoke.
Isaiah 58:6 fasting slavery
No one has ever seen God,
but if we love one another,
God abides in us,
and his love is made complete in us.
1 John 4:12 love God
Then Peter came up to him and asked, “Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus answered, “I say to you, not seven times but seventy times seven.”
Matthew 18:21-22 forgiveness sin mercy
Arise, O Lord! Lift up your hand, O God!
Do not forget the afflicted.
Psalm 10:12 prayer poverty
You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male slave, nor his female slave, nor his oxen, nor his donkey, nor anything that belongs to your neighbor.
Exodus 20:17 greed materialism law
Take care, brethren, that none of you will ever have an evil and unbelieving heart that will cause you to forsake the living God.
Hebrews 3:12 anger evil heart
Grant justice to the weak and the orphan;
defend the rights of the lowly and the poor.
Psalm 82:3 orphans righteousness weakness
He said to them in reply, “Anyone who has two coats must share with the person who has none, and whoever has food must do likewise.”
Luke 3:11 materialism giving poverty
So if I, your Lord and Teacher,
have washed your feet,
you also should wash one another’s feet.
John 13:14 humility serving Jesus
Give proper consideration to those widows who are truly in need.
1 Timothy 5:3 community widows
There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save or to destroy. Who then are you to pass judgment on a neighbor?
James 4:12 law judgment salvation
This must not be so with you. Instead, whoever wishes to be great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be your servant.
Matthew 20:26-27 humility serving slavery
Then I came to realize that all toil and skill in work derive from one person’s envy of another. This also is vanity and a chase after the wind.
Ecclesiastes 4:4 work desires materialism
While Peter was thus imprisoned, the Church prayed fervently to God for him.
Acts 12:5 prayer dependence community

And ‘to love him with all your heart, and with all your understanding, and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself,’ is worth more than any burnt offerings and sacrifices.