Romans 12:15

Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.

I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’

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

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

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.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation.

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

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

Oh magnify Yahweh with me. Let’s exalt his name together.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.

Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let such as love your salvation say continually, “Let Yahweh be exalted!”

Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let those who love your salvation continually say, “Let God be exalted!”

However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.

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

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

a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

But if you will not hear it, my soul will weep in secret for your pride. My eye will weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because Yahweh’s flock has been taken captive.

“You shall say this word to them: “ ‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.

Of Edom, Yahweh of Armies says: “Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?

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.

Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

You will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth.

Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did believed in him.

Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.

Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers with many words and strengthened them.

I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.

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

We have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you both do and will do the things we command.

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

Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.

The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.

Reuben returned to the pit, and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes.

David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn in front of Abner.” King David followed the bier.

Then the king arose, and tore his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.

Then the king said to me, “What is your request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.

So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,

Streams of tears run down my eyes, because they don’t observe your law.

Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name. The righteous will surround me, for you will be good to me.

Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.

Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown,

As one who takes away a garment in cold weather, or vinegar on soda, so is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.

Therefore I said, “Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don’t labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

Let them make haste and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids gush out with waters.

Tell the children of Ammon, ‘Hear the word of the Lord Yahweh! The Lord Yahweh says, “Because you said, ‘Aha!’ against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was made desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity:

In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole weeks.

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.’

“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.’

Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.

To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

We have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you.

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.

For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even beyond what I say.

Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

The sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bore Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.

Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before God’s house, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very bitterly.

The caravans of Tema looked. The companies of Sheba waited for them.

For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

Let those who favor my righteous cause shout for joy and be glad. Yes, let them say continually, “May Yahweh be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!”

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

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

Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer will suddenly come on us.

For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.”

Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Yahweh had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.

The women said to Naomi, “Blessed be Yahweh, who has not left you today without a near kinsman. Let his name be famous in Israel.

Then the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, and spoke these words in the ears of the people, then all the people lifted up their voice, and wept.

Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them; and all the men who were with him did likewise.

When I heard these words, I sat down and wept, and mourned several days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,

“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,

“Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.

Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.

Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, “Now put these rags and worn-out garments under your armpits under the cords.” Jeremiah did so.

“Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her and the daughters of the famous nations, to the lower parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit.

who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils; but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were exceedingly sorry, and came and told their lord all that was done.

Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy toward her, and they rejoiced with her.

for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ Then they began to celebrate.

When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,

For if I make you grieve, then who will make me glad but he who is made to grieve by me?

as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.

who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.

And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn’t have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you.

since he longed for you all, and was very troubled because you had heard that he was sick.

I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.