Deuteronomy 24:13

‘Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.

he will make your righteousness shine out like light, and your justice as the noon day sun.

For you shall not go out in haste, neither shall you go by flight: for Yahweh will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still.

but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.

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.

Life will be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it will be as the morning.

Righteousness goes before him, And prepares the way for his steps.

I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.

For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds,” says Yahweh; “because they have called you an outcast, saying, ‘It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.’ ”

But they do all their works to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments,

Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

“I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them.

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.

for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again; and I would heal them.’

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

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.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.

Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.

He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, “What is it, Lord?” He said to him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.

and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.

As it is written, “He has scattered abroad. He has given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever.”

Even as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.”

So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.

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.

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

“ ‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. “ ‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

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?

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

Let your priests be clothed with righteousness. Let your saints shout for joy!”

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head. He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.

I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;

I gave them my statutes, and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he will live in them.

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

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.

“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,

It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all these commandments before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.”

You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his offspring, and have performed your words; for you are righteous.

For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they do? Even the great abominations that the house of Israel commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? But you will again see yet other great abominations.”

Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger. Behold, they put the branch to their nose.

Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

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

Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.

If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.

if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;

People curse someone who withholds grain, but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.

Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight; for you don’t know what evil will be on the earth.

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

They haven’t cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.

But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him.

In his day you shall give him his wages, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.

He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.

He believed in Yahweh, who credited it to him for righteousness.

You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;

The people blessed all the men who willingly offered themselves to dwell in Jerusalem.

the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

That was credited to him for righteousness, for all generations to come.

Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.

and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,

hasn’t wronged any, hasn’t taken anything to pledge, hasn’t taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he will surely live. He will not die.

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.

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.