James 2:13

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.

He said to them, “Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and more will be given to you who hear.

With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect.

“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,

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!

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.

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.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked?” says the Lord Yahweh; “and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?

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

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.

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,

Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,

You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because it is for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you put your hand to.

He who despises his neighbor sins, but he who has pity on the poor is blessed.

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

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?

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

But if you don’t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

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;

Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.

In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

“ ‘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.

if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.

My soul shall boast in Yahweh. The humble shall hear of it and be glad.

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

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

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

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

“But woe to you who are rich! For you have received your consolation.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

that, as it is written, “He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”

But “he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.

Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.”

In those days, and in that time,” says Yahweh, “the iniquity of Israel will be sought for, and there will be none; also the sins of Judah, and they won’t be found; for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.

Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.

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

Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.

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.

As Isaiah has said before, “Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah.”

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

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

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.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Now hear me therefore, and send back the captives that you have taken captive from your brothers, for the fierce wrath of Yahweh is on you.”

They shall not be disappointed in the time of evil. In the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”

Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.

“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.”

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

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

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

He must restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity!”

With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.

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

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy. You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.

Therefore Yahweh says: “You have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim to you a liberty,” says Yahweh, “to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine. I will make you be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.

Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk haughtily; for it is an evil time.

Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.

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.

When they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim and lifted up his voice, cried out, and said to them, “Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you.

Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city and killed the people in it. He beat down the city and sowed it with salt.

On the next day, Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the middle of the camp in the morning watch, and struck the Ammonites until the heat of the day. Those who remained were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.

Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women!” Then Samuel cut Agag in pieces before Yahweh in Gilgal.

He struck Nob, the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing babies, and cattle and donkeys and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

David asked him, “To whom do you belong? Where are you from?” He said, “I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I got sick.

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.

Who will declare his way to his face? Who will repay him what he has done?

what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him?

With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.

You, Yahweh God of Armies, the God of Israel, rouse yourself to punish the nations. Show no mercy to the wicked traitors.

Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

Let there be no one to extend kindness to him, neither let there be anyone to have pity on his fatherless children.

They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.”

Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their big toes cut off, scavenged under my table. As I have done, so God has done to me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for I delight in these things,” says Yahweh.

Tell them, ‘ “As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?” ’

“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.

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.