Doing For Others

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.

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

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

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.

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

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 →

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

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.’”

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

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

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

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

“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 I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in. — read the full passage →

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

My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

“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.’

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

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.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

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

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

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

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

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 →

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

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

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

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.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves. — 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?

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

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

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

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

We love him, because he first loved us.

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. — read the full passage →

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

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.

Praise Yahweh, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name! — read the full passage →

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

“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 →

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

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

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.

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

Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” — read the full passage →

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — read the full passage →

“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men. — 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.”

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

or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

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

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. — read the full passage →

Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.

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.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

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

Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more.

not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing; knowing that to this were you called, that you may inherit a blessing.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; — read the full passage →

Depart from evil, and do good. seek peace, and pursue it.

We love him, because he first loved us. — read the full passage →

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: — read the full passage →

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. — read the full passage →

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.

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, — read the full passage →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — 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?

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

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.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.

Kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers: they shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.”

He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.

For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh,

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 →

You call me, ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord.’ You say so correctly, for so I am.

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