Genesis 43:30

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

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.

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

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

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?

When he came near, he saw the city and wept over it,

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

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

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.

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?

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.

When a man’s ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

We love him, because he first loved us.

The king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (also called Zoar) went out; and they set the battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim

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.

that all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath.

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

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

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!

if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.

“He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

This continued for two years, so that all those who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.

When he had spent three months there, and a plot was made against him by Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.

and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience is made full.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

Be diligent to come to me soon,

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

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.

For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone; that there is no one remaining, shut up or left at large.

So Joab came to the king, and told him; and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king; and the king kissed Absalom.

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.”

Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres.

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.

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.

They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.

then I will also cast away the offspring of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his offspring to be rulers over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to be reversed and will have mercy on them.”

For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he will surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.”

“Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew that disappears early.

Therefore he will abandon them until the time that she who is in labor gives birth. Then the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel.

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

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

When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,

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

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.

He entered into the synagogue and spoke boldly for a period of three months, reasoning and persuading about the things concerning God’s Kingdom.

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

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

I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

Be diligent to come before winter. Eubulus salutes you, as do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers.

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, having in the same way as these given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

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.

I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.

He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.

Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening. My heart pounded for him.

“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.

serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;

Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

They all wept freely, and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him,

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

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

If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

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

longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;

But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?

Jesus wept.