Matthew 25:36

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

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

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

hasn’t wronged any, hasn’t taken anything to pledge, hasn’t taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

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.

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.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

Now, brothers, I entrust you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine as the stars forever and ever.

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

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

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

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.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

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

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday;

“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” says Yahweh.

has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.

So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia. From there they sailed to Cyprus.

But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came to Iconium.

they became aware of it and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, Derbe, and the surrounding region.

Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable.

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.

The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand: remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

not as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.

We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him.

“So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.

Please run now to meet her, and ask her, ‘Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with your child?’ ” She answered, “It is well.”

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

You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

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

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

Strengthen the weak hands, and make the feeble knees firm.

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment. Its inhabitants will die in the same way, but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be abolished.

Lift up your eyes, and see those who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you, your beautiful flock?

if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he will surely live. He will not die.

“I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice.” ’

But I tell you that I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on, until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father’s Kingdom.”

To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, don’t withhold your coat also.

But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus’ name.

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

Now a mediator is not between one, but God is one.

But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

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

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

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

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

“I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness. I will hold your hand. I will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations,

“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

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?

Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says against the shepherds who feed my people: “You have scattered my flock, driven them away, and have not visited them. Behold, I will visit on you the evil of your doings,” says Yahweh.

and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

You haven’t strengthened the diseased. You haven’t healed that which was sick. You haven’t bound up that which was broken. You haven’t brought back that which was driven away. You haven’t sought that which was lost, but you have ruled over them with force and with rigor.

Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

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.’

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

After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s return now and visit our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.”

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.’”

For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.