1 John 3:17

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

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.’”

but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

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.

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth.

One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.

He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness even until now.

For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

But I have all things and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.

If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

When he is judged, let him come out guilty. Let his prayer be turned into sin.

One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.

For neither was there among them any who lacked, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold,

He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing and say, “Sit here in a good place;” and you tell the poor man, “Stand there,” or “Sit by my footstool”

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.

“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

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.

You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.

Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!

Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

and all the brothers who are with me, to the assemblies of Galatia:

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.

“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.

Hear now, Joshua the high priest, you and your fellows who sit before you; for they are men who are a sign: for, behold, I will bring out my servant, the Branch.

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”

teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians and could not be healed by any

For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.”

They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need.

As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;

Now after some years, I came to bring gifts for the needy to my nation, and offerings;

Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I commanded the assemblies of Galatia, you do likewise.

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

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:

He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn’t believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.

“ ‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you, then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.

A righteous man respects the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth; and if a tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there shall it be.

For you always have the poor with you; but you don’t always have me.

He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”

But I know you, that you don’t have God’s love in yourselves.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,

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

Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill him!” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him.”

or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

Yahweh, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness, for they are from old times.

Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?”

Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory. Where are your zeal and your mighty acts? The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.

for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on.”

because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the dawn from on high will visit us,

contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.

You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.

His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.

For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through much giving of thanks to God,

They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do.

For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the saints,

For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to share;

Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the Lord.

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.