Neighbor (2/3)

But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need… 1 John 3:17

But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?
1 John 3:17 money compassion love
Thus says the Lord of hosts:
‘Execute true justice,
Show mercy and compassion
Everyone to his brother.
Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless,
The alien or the poor.
Let none of you plan evil in his heart
Against his brother.’
Zechariah 7:9-10 evil righteousness gentleness

And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
Matthew 22:39 law love
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
1 John 4:7 love friendship rebirth
For if they fall, one will lift up his companion.
But woe to him who is alone when he falls,
For he has no one to help him up.
Ecclesiastes 4:10 relationships friendship
By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
1 John 3:16 love Jesus
Therefore receive one another, just as Christ also received us, to the glory of God.
Romans 15:7 Jesus worship
Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.
Luke 6:36 goodness Father
Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend,
Nor go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity;
Better is a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.
Proverbs 27:10 friendship family
If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men.
Romans 12:18 peace life
But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.
2 Peter 1:5-7 faith goodness self-control
Is this not the fast that I have chosen:
To loose the bonds of wickedness,
To undo the heavy burdens,
To let the oppressed go free,
And that you break every yoke?
Isaiah 58:6 fasting slavery
No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.
1 John 4:12 love God
Then Peter came to Him and said, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?”
Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.”
Matthew 18:21-22 forgiveness sin mercy
Arise, O Lord!
O God, lift up Your hand!
Do not forget the humble.
Psalm 10:12 prayer poverty
You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.
Exodus 20:17 greed materialism law
Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God.
Hebrews 3:12 anger evil heart
Defend the poor and fatherless;
Do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Psalm 82:3 orphans righteousness weakness
He answered and said to them, “He who has two tunics, let him give to him who has none; and he who has food, let him do likewise.”
Luke 3:11 materialism giving poverty
Honor widows who are really widows.
1 Timothy 5:3 community widows
If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.
John 13:14 humility serving Jesus
There is one Lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you to judge another?
James 4:12 law judgment salvation
Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant. And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave.
Matthew 20:26-27 humility serving slavery
Again, I saw that for all toil and every skillful work a man is envied by his neighbor. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.
Ecclesiastes 4:4 work desires materialism
Peter was therefore kept in prison, but constant prayer was offered to God for him by the church.
Acts 12:5 prayer dependence community

And to love Him with all the heart, with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, is more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.