Benevolence

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the 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.

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

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

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

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.’ — read the full passage →

“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.”

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.’”

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

If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →

“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. — read the full passage →

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him? — read the full passage →

“‘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. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

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 don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Now in these days, prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch. — read the full passage →

If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don’t let the assembly be burdened; that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

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

“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 we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word.”

God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife.

See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints,

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, — read the full passage →

All who believed were together, and had all things in common. — read the full passage →

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

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it. — read the full passage →

Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I commanded the assemblies of Galatia, you do likewise. — read the full passage →

As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.

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.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.

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

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;

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

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

The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common. — read the full passage →

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

Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

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

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

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; — read the full passage →

and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then your light shall rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the noonday;

seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all;

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I commanded the assemblies of Galatia, you do likewise. — read the full passage →

He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”

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.

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. — read the full passage →

They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was now evening.

If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink:

Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man, — read the full passage →

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

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

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

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

who testified to God’s word, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, about everything that he saw.

Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia; — read the full passage →

I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb, are its temple.

The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth.”

He deceives my own people who dwell on the earth because of the signs he was granted to do in front of the beast; saying to those who dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast who had the sword wound and lived.

Therefore show the proof of your love to them in front of the assemblies, and of our boasting on your behalf.

I heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” They went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies saw them.

They have tails like those of scorpions, and stings. In their tails they have power to harm men for five months.

Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that did not defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns, and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.

Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man, — read the full passage →

of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand, of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand, of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

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.

Honor widows who are widows indeed. — read the full passage →

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; — read the full passage →

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. — read the full passage →