Proverbs 21:13

Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

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

Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.

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.

Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

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

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

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

He said to them, “Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and more will be given to you who hear.

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

When he is judged, let him come out guilty. Let his prayer be turned into sin.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut.

Even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.”

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

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.

Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?

I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him who I didn’t know.

There they cry, but no one answers, because of the pride of evil men.

Take heed, don’t regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.

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

For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips.

Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed, and who betray, but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betrayal, you will be betrayed.

Therefore Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they will not be able to escape; and they will cry to me, but I will not listen to them.

When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.”

Then Yahweh said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not turn toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out!

Therefore Yahweh says: “You have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim to you a liberty,” says Yahweh, “to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine. I will make you be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

Therefore I will also deal in wrath. My eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity. Though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.”

They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh; but they won’t find him. He has withdrawn himself from them.

Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

“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.’

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.

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.

“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.”

He will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’

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

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”

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

so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

Their wine is the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.

Then Ezra blessed Yahweh, the great God. All the people answered, “Amen, Amen,” with the lifting up of their hands. They bowed their heads, and worshiped Yahweh with their faces to the ground.

Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn’t delight in blessing, and it was far from him.

People curse someone who withholds grain, but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

“Therefore don’t pray for this people. Don’t lift up cry or prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time that they cry to me because of their trouble.

therefore, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I will do according to your anger, and according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them when I judge you.

I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies.

“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.’

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

If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;

The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.

By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.”

There will be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has not been, nor will be any more.

Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

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

Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

When they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim and lifted up his voice, cried out, and said to them, “Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you.

You will cry out in that day because of your king whom you will have chosen for yourselves; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.”

Also I shook out my lap, and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that doesn’t perform this promise; even may he be shaken out and emptied like this.” All the assembly said, “Amen,” and praised Yahweh. The people did according to this promise.

They cried, but there was no one to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.

Their poison is like the poison of a snake, like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

Then they will call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;

All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.

The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.

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

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

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

For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

“ ‘ “Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters. She also didn’t strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen,” said Yahweh of Armies;

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”

But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears, then rushed at him with one accord.

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’