Exodus 23:5

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.

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

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

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

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

You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them. You shall surely help him to lift them up again.

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

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

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

The Philistines laid hold on him and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he ground at the mill in the prison.

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.

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.

He said to them, “What man is there among you, who has one sheep, and if this one falls into a pit on the Sabbath day, won’t he grab on to it, and lift it out?

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

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

Yes, I beg you also, true partner, help these women, for they labored with me in the Good News with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.

Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.

In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers and saw their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.

and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the female servant who is behind the mill, and all the firstborn of livestock.

Moses said, “Don’t leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.

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.’ ”

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.

He said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will come and help you.

He said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you are to help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will help you.

Then you will prosper, if you observe to do the statutes and the ordinances which Yahweh gave Moses concerning Israel. Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed.

Whoever is left, in any place where he lives, let the men of his place help him with silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, in addition to the free will offering for God’s house which is in Jerusalem.’ ”

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

then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Take the millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, lift up your skirt, uncover your legs, and wade through the rivers.

Your sons have fainted. They lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a net. They are full of Yahweh’s wrath, the rebuke of your God.

“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?

The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to the solemn assembly. All her gates are desolate. Her priests sigh. Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.

The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood.

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.

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.

and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. Jesus said to Simon, “Don’t be afraid. From now on you will be catching people alive.”

Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, and said to him, “Tell us who it is of whom he speaks.”

Barnabas went out to Tarsus to look for Saul.

When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for you. As for our brothers, they are the apostles of the assemblies, the glory of Christ.

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

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

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

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

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

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, “He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases.”

He said, “Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won’t even lift one finger to help carry those burdens.