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Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

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 →

Thus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

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,

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.

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

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother. — read the full passage →

Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

“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.’

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.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.

“‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

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 →

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.

which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.

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

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.

For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. — read the full passage →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

Not that I speak in respect to lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.

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

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

“You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

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

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

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 →

“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge; — read the full passage →

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.

My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.

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.

When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.

But let each man test his own work, and then he will take pride in himself and not in his neighbor.

Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

“Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate. — read the full passage →

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

This is the way it shall be done: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not require payment from his neighbor and his brother; because Yahweh’s release has been proclaimed.

Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.

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 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.

If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,

For each man will bear his own burden.

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep. — read the full passage →

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

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. — read the full passage →

But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise,

Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.

My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger; — read the full passage →

These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

Mercy to you and peace and love be multiplied.

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

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?”

The soul who sins, he shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

“For I, Yahweh, love justice, I hate robbery with iniquity; and I will give them their recompense in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.

It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.

Now on the third day, Esther put on her royal clothing, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, next to the king’s house. The king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, next to the entrance of the house. — read the full passage →

“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice;

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

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

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.

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed, — 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 →

It shall be eaten the same day you offer it, and on the next day: and if anything remains until the third day, it shall be burned with fire.

This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke. — read the full passage →

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction, — read the full passage →