Proverbs 29:7

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

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

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

Let brotherly love continue.

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

Don’t count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

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

and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

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

If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don’t say that he should make a request concerning this.

The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,

‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.

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

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

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

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.

Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

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.

For some thought, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus said to him, “Buy what things we need for the feast,” or that he should give something to the poor.

so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

“ ‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

Her mother-in-law said to her, “Where have you gleaned today? Where have you worked? Blessed be he who noticed you.” She told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, “The man’s name with whom I worked today is Boaz.”

You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

They shall not be disappointed in the time of evil. In the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

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

Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.

Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up.

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

has walked in my statutes, and has kept my ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live,” says the Lord Yahweh.

“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.” ’

For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.

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

Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye?

“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.’

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

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.’”

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

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

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;

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.

Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”

“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest.

“ ‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon himself.

“ ‘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 deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;

For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat, then they will turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.

He brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.

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

(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, I have guided her from my mother’s womb);

For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

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

Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.

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

Consider my affliction, and deliver me, for I don’t forget your law.

Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

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

Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

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?

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.

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

to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt;

House of David, Yahweh says, ‘Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

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.

he who hasn’t lent to them with interest, hasn’t taken any increase from them, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,

“As the days of Noah were, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

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.

saying, “There was a judge in a certain city who didn’t fear God, and didn’t respect man.

He wouldn’t for a while, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

‘Behold, you scoffers, and wonder, and perish; for I work a work in your days, a work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.’ ”

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.

What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

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

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

“If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me,

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

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.

and they didn’t know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.

They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.

In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.