Genesis 24:44

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood near him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,

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!

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

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.

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

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,

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?

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.

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;

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

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

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

Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.

behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then I’ll know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken.”

For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from Yahweh.

The lot settles disputes, and keeps strong ones apart.

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

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.

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

Gaius, my host and host of the whole assembly, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, as does Quartus, the brother.

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

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled,

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.

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, “I will also draw for your camels, until they have finished drinking.”

Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes. It shall be that the tribe which Yahweh selects shall come near by families. The family which Yahweh selects shall come near by households. The household which Yahweh selects shall come near man by man.

He said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, then show me a sign that it is you who talk with me.

But if they say this, ‘Come up to us!’ then we will go up; for Yahweh has delivered them into our hand. This shall be the sign to us.”

(the foreigner has not camped in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);

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

For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shook the arrows back and forth. He consulted the teraphim. He looked in the liver.

They all said to each other, “Come! Let’s cast lots, that we may know who is responsible for this evil that is on us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.

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

When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay.” So she persuaded us.

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.’”

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

Let brotherly love continue.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.

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.

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

and he said, “See now, my lords, please come into your servant’s house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your way.” They said, “No, but we will stay in the street all night.”

Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, ‘Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,’ then she says, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink,’—let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master.”

As the camels had done drinking, the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,

She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”

The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.

When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before Yahweh. There Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to their divisions.

Therefore Saul said to Yahweh, the God of Israel, “Show the right.” Jonathan and Saul were chosen, but the people escaped.

He also walked in the ways of Ahab’s house, because his mother was his counselor in acting wickedly.

For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy offspring have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.”

The princes of the people lived in Jerusalem. The rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts in the other cities.

In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, and chose the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.

(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

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, being moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes received their sight, and they followed 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.’

I was a stranger, and you didn’t take me in; naked, and you didn’t clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’

When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house.”

The third day, there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there.

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

They drew lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was counted with the eleven apostles.

Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the chief man of the island, named Publius, who received us, and courteously entertained us for three days.

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which he had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.

The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from Yahweh.

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

But the noble devises noble things; and he will continue in noble things.

Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

but with good works, which is appropriate for women professing godliness.

Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.

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