Mark 12:44

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.

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?

“ ‘If a woman has a discharge of her blood many days not in the time of her period, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her period, all the days of the discharge of her uncleanness shall be as in the days of her period. She is unclean.

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

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

If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians and could not be healed by any

came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

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

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

For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.

“ ‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you, then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.

When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them; for you may eat of them. You shall not cut them down, for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged by you?

For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

A righteous man respects the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth; and if a tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there shall it be.

For you always have the poor with you; but you don’t always have me.

For in pouring this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.

He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”

He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.

for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on.”

But I know you, that you don’t have God’s love in yourselves.

A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.

But Peter said, “I have no silver or gold, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,

Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s life;

Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Go, get down; for your people, who you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves!

Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone as a pledge, for he takes a life in pledge.

You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;

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.”

In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa was diseased in his feet. His disease was exceedingly great: yet in his disease he didn’t seek Yahweh, but just the physicians.

But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.

or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

Yahweh, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness, for they are from old times.

Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?”

Give us help against the enemy, for the help of man is vain.

Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.

For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

He who robs his father and drives away his mother, is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.

Whoever keeps the law is a wise son; but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.

Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

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.

Surely after that I was turned. I repented. After that I was instructed. I struck my thigh. I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.’

People give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you on every side for your prostitution.

and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth, and wastes away. I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they weren’t able.”

She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying.

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

When Jesus stepped ashore, a certain man out of the city who had demons for a long time met him. He wore no clothes, and didn’t live in a house, but in the tombs.

He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years. She was bent over, and could in no way straighten herself up.

Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham whom Satan had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage on the Sabbath day?”

The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of your property.’ He divided his livelihood between them.

Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.

He said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.’

But when this your son came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’

But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ ”

The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.

but how he now sees, we don’t know; or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself.”

But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial.

For the man on whom this miracle of healing was performed was more than forty years old.

Ananias departed and entered into the house. Laying his hands on him, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

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

You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.

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

For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through much giving of thanks to God,

They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do.

For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the saints,

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

that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to share;

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?

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.

The voice of harpists, minstrels, flute players, and trumpeters will be heard no more at all in you. No craftsman, of whatever craft, will be found any more at all in you. The sound of a mill will be heard no more at all in you.

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.