Matthew 5:7

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

In him we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him.

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

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

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,

Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

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

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

You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.

Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.

Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.

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.’”

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

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

Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”

As it is written, “He has scattered abroad. He has given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever.”

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.

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

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

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

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

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

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

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

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

because Yahweh of Armies has blessed them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.”

“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of animal.

“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.”

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing what is right.

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

We love him, because he first loved us.

Life will be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it will be as the morning.

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

Princes shall come out of Egypt. Ethiopia shall hurry to stretch out her hands to God.

I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.

Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.

Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.

One who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding holds his peace.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

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

Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and will say, “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no profit.

But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and God’s love. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

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.

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

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

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

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

The men said to her, “Our life for yours, if you don’t talk about this business of ours; and it shall be, when Yahweh gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you.”

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

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?

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Behold, as your life was respected today in my eyes, so let my life be respected in Yahweh’s eyes, and let him deliver me out of all oppression.”

Now may Yahweh show loving kindness and truth to you. I also will reward you for this kindness, because you have done this thing.

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.”

All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His offspring is blessed.

because he didn’t remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.

He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.

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

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

Don’t they go astray who plot evil? But love and faithfulness belong to those who plan good.

Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”

“Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’ and to your sisters, ‘My loved one!’

I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘My God!’ ”

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.

brought them out, and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.

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

May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,

Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.

The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.

She conceived again, and bore a daughter. Then he said to him, “Call her name Lo-Ruhamah; for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, that I should in any way pardon them.

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.

For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.

although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.

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.

In the past, you were not a people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.