Proverbs 14:31

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.

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 merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

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.”

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

For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons or take bribes.

For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

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

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

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.

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

“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.’

“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.”

Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

Take no interest from him or profit; but fear your God, that your brother may live among you.

When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

“If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him

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

There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.

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

The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: Yahweh gives sight to the eyes of both.

Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.

Yahweh says: “Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work will be rewarded,” says Yahweh. “They will come again from the land of the enemy.

But don’t look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don’t rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don’t speak proudly in the day of distress.

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you are Christ’s, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.

The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.

Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;

Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

What, don’t you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God’s assembly and put them to shame who don’t have enough? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don’t praise you.

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

You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.

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 Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

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,

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

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?

The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, as well as the foreigner living among you, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.”

Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?

God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods.

“Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”

Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.

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

The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.

If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this,” doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?

He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

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

“Now I will arise,” says Yahweh. “Now I will lift myself up. Now I will be exalted.

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.”

Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

“Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’

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

He said, “Who are you, Lord?” The Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

For there is no partiality with God.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

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.

“ ‘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.

You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates.

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

He doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respect the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.

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

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

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;

But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

“ ‘If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

“ ‘But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, blasphemes Yahweh. That soul shall be cut off from among his people.

Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?

He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net.

“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

Yahweh executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are oppressed.

Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:

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

The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.

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;

who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who hasn’t received interest or increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father. He shall surely live.

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.

But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;

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

For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints who are at Jerusalem.

This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.