- But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?
- Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother. Don’t oppress the widow, the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’
- A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
- Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
- For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up.
- By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
- Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God.
- Therefore be merciful,
even as your Father is also merciful. - If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.
- Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend.
Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster.
A neighbor who is near is better than a distant brother. - Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge; and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control, perseverance; and in perseverance, godliness; and in godliness, brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.
- No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
- Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen:
to release the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the straps of the yoke,
to let the oppressed go free,
and that you break every yoke? - Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I don’t tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven.”
- 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.
- Arise, Yahweh!
God, lift up your hand!
Don’t forget the helpless. - Honor widows who are widows indeed.
- Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God.
- Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless.
Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. - He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”
- If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.
- Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
- Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
- It shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant. Whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant.
- Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.
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