Caring For Others

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

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

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. — read the full passage →

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? — read the full passage →

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.

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

Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up. — read the full passage →

“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.’

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

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

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

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.

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

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 →

“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 →

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

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?

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

But Moses’ hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady until sunset.

contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

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

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

He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury. — read the full passage →

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

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

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

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.

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

Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.

Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again. — read the full passage →

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,

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.

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

The multitudes asked him, “What then must we do?” — read the full passage →

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 →

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. — read the full passage →

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

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — 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 →

For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says Yahweh; because they have called you an outcast, saying, It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.

“For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. — read the full passage →

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

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.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed. Deliver me in your righteousness. — read the full passage →

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant. — read the full passage →

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

Jesus answered, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. — read the full passage →

He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

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 the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them in justice.

But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. — read the full passage →

Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

Yahweh my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.

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.

Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted. — read the full passage →

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.

Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. — read the full passage →

For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.

My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.”

He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly, — read the full passage →

Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

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.

Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.

For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. And this we also pray for, even your perfecting.

He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully. — read the full passage →

“Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. — read the full passage →

I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed. — read the full passage →

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. — read the full passage →

If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it. — read the full passage →

When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” — read the full passage →

I cry with my voice to Yahweh. With my voice, I ask Yahweh for mercy. — read the full passage →

for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — 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.”

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. — read the full passage →

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. — read the full passage →