Luke 5:7

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.

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

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.

But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need,

Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written.”

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.

Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.

Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster. A neighbor who is near is better than a distant brother.

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

If then you count me a partner, receive him as you would receive me.

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

Yahweh will count, when he writes up the peoples, “This one was born there.”

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.

He said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you fishers for men.”

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet, that was cast into the sea, and gathered some fish of every kind,

Nevertheless, don’t rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

The Lord said to him, “Arise, and go to the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judah for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying,

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.

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

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 who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

They lifted up their voices and wept again; then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth stayed with her.

“At that time Michael will stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people; and there will be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time. At that time your people will be delivered, everyone who is found written in the book.

Jesus said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you into fishers for men.”

When the brothers knew it, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him off to Tarsus.

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.

I had no relief for my spirit, because I didn’t find Titus, my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went out into Macedonia.

So we urged Titus, that as he had made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace.

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

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same way in the Lord.

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.

to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, and shall be present.

I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.

If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.

There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him. You shall surely help him with it.

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.

I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

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.

Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your kindness to your friend? Why didn’t you go with your friend?”

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.

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

“My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and who utter lying divinations. They will not be in the council of my people, neither will they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither will they enter into the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.”

Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. He called them.

But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, “Cheer up! It is I! Don’t be afraid.”

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, whom he also named Peter; Andrew, his brother; James; John; Philip; Bartholomew;

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

They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.

But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles, and declared to them how he had seen the Lord on the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus.

Barnabas went out to Tarsus to look for Saul.

But Paul said, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. I beg you, allow me to speak to the people.”

“I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are today.

Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved.

Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Greet Persis, the beloved, who labored much in the Lord.

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

Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus,

But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.

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?

Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.

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

even as you learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on your behalf,

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.

and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith,

as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.

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

We therefore ought to receive such, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.

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