- If someone has enough money to live well and sees a brother or sister in need but shows no compassion—how can God’s love be in that person?
- This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: Judge fairly, and show mercy and kindness to one another. Do not oppress widows, orphans, foreigners, and the poor. And do not scheme against each other.
- Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God.
- A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
- If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble.
- We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us. So we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters.
- Never abandon a friend—
either yours or your father’s.
When disaster strikes, you won’t have to ask your brother for assistance.
It’s better to go to a neighbor than to a brother who lives far away. - You must be compassionate, just as your Father is compassionate.
- Do all that you can to live in peace with everyone.
- Therefore, accept each other just as Christ has accepted you so that God will be given glory.
- In view of all this, make every effort to respond to God’s promises. Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone.
- No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us.
- No, this is the kind of fasting I want:
Free those who are wrongly imprisoned;
lighten the burden of those who work for you.
Let the oppressed go free,
and remove the chains that bind people. - Then Peter came to him and asked, “Lord, how often should I forgive someone who sins against me? Seven times?” “No, not seven times,” Jesus replied, “but seventy times seven!”
- Arise, O Lord!
Punish the wicked, O God!
Do not ignore the helpless! - You must not covet your neighbor’s house. You must not covet your neighbor’s wife, male or female servant, ox or donkey, or anything else that belongs to your neighbor.
- Give justice to the poor and the orphan;
uphold the rights of the oppressed and the destitute. - And since I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash each other’s feet.
- John replied, “If you have two shirts, give one to the poor. If you have food, share it with those who are hungry.”
- Be careful then, dear brothers and sisters. Make sure that your own hearts are not evil and unbelieving, turning you away from the living God.
- Take care of any widow who has no one else to care for her.
- Then I observed that most people are motivated to success because they envy their neighbors. But this, too, is meaningless—like chasing the wind.
- God alone, who gave the law, is the Judge. He alone has the power to save or to destroy. So what right do you have to judge your neighbor?
- But among you it will be different. Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first among you must become your slave.
- Do not nurse hatred in your heart for any of your relatives. Confront people directly so you will not be held guilty for their sin. Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against a fellow Israelite, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.
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