1 Corinthians 12:26

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

He said, “Peace be to you. Don’t be afraid. Your God, and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks. I received your money.” He brought Simeon out to them.

would you then wait until they were grown? Would you then refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, for it grieves me seriously for your sakes, for Yahweh’s hand has gone out against me.”

Oh magnify Yahweh with me. Let’s exalt his name together.

Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let such as love your salvation say continually, “Let Yahweh be exalted!”

Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let those who love your salvation continually say, “Let God be exalted!”

“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

Thinking about that, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was called Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying.

She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother; and he sought a place to weep. He entered into his room, and wept there.

If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him. You shall surely help him with it.

Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?

All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.

a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

Of Edom, Yahweh of Armies says: “Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?

Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?’

You will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth.

But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ ”

Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.

The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

Now the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus,

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand: remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.”

The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.

How can I myself alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your strife?

This is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: ‘The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face.”

But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name. The righteous will surround me, for you will be good to me.

Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.

As one who takes away a garment in cold weather, or vinegar on soda, so is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.

this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him. The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”

and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.

They beckoned to their partners in the other boat, that they should come and help them. They came, and filled both boats, so that they began to sink.

But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion,

Most certainly I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live.

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift given to us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.

Then Esther called for Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs, whom he had appointed to attend her, and commanded him to go to Mordecai, to find out what this was, and why it was.

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

Let those who favor my righteous cause shout for joy and be glad. Yes, let them say continually, “May Yahweh be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!”

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.

Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Yahweh had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.

until Yahweh has given your brothers rest, as he has given you, and they have also possessed the land which Yahweh your God gives them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession and possess it, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.’ ”

The women said to Naomi, “Blessed be Yahweh, who has not left you today without a near kinsman. Let his name be famous in Israel.

Then the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, and spoke these words in the ears of the people, then all the people lifted up their voice, and wept.

David went up by the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered, and went barefoot. All the people who were with him each covered his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.

“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,

“Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.

Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.

who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils; but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy toward her, and they rejoiced with her.

for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ Then they began to celebrate.

Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.

For if I make you grieve, then who will make me glad but he who is made to grieve by me?

Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

since he longed for you all, and was very troubled because you had heard that he was sick.

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,