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wherefore receive ye one another, according as also the Christ did receive us, to the glory of God.

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

of the hospitality be not forgetful, for through this unawares certain did entertain messengers;

hospitable to one another, without murmuring;

for I did hunger, and ye gave me to eat; I did thirst, and ye gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and ye received me;

to the necessities of the saints communicating; the hospitality pursuing.

`And the king answering, shall say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did <FI>it<Fi> to one of these my brethren--the least--to me ye did <FI>it<Fi> .

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled,

Beloved, faithfully dost thou do whatever thou mayest work to the brethren and to the strangers,

And he answering said, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God out of all thy heart, and out of all thy soul, and out of all thy strength, and out of all thy understanding, and thy neighbour as thyself.'

And Peter having opened his mouth, said, `Of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons,

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

Let brotherly love remain;

as a native among you is the sojourner to you who is sojourning with you, and thou hast had love to him as to thyself, for sojourners ye have been in the land of Egypt; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah your God.

the love to the neighbour doth work no ill; the love, therefore, <FI>is<Fi> the fulness of law.

`And when a sojourner sojourneth with thee in your land, thou dost not oppress him; — read the full passage →

salute one another in a holy kiss; the assemblies of Christ do salute you.

Let brotherly love remain; — read the full passage →

`Ye heard that it was said: Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and shalt hate thine enemy; — read the full passage →

and I heard a great voice out of the heaven, saying, `Lo, the tabernacle of God <FI>is<Fi> with men, and He will tabernacle with them, and they shall be His peoples, and God Himself shall be with them--their God,

and the multitudes having known did follow him, and having received them, he was speaking to them concerning the reign of God, and those having need of service he cured.

`Then shall the king say to those on his right hand, Come ye, the blessed of my Father, inherit the reign that hath been prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

`And ye have loved the sojourner, for sojourners ye were in the land of Egypt.

and the foreigners were shewing us no ordinary kindness, for having kindled a fire, they received us all, because of the pressing rain, and because of the cold;

so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens.

Beloved, faithfully dost thou do whatever thou mayest work to the brethren and to the strangers, — read the full passage →

in good works being testified to: if she brought up children, if she entertained strangers, if saints' feet she washed, if those in tribulation she relieved, if every good work she followed after;

And I have drawn near to you for judgment, And I have been a witness, Making haste against sorcerers, And against adulterers, And against swearers to a falsehood, And against oppressors of the hire of an hireling, Of a widow, and of a fatherless one, And those turning aside a sojourner, And who fear Me not, said Jehovah of Hosts.

`Then shall the reign of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who, having taken their lamps, went forth to meet the bridegroom; — read the full passage →

`And in your reaping the harvest of your land ye do not completely reap the corner of thy field, and the gleaning of thy harvest thou dost not gather, — read the full passage →

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

for all the law in one word is fulfilled--in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;'

in the house of my Father are many mansions; and if not, I would have told you; I go on to prepare a place for you;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

And they were bringing to him children, that he might touch them, and the disciples were rebuking those bringing them, — read the full passage →

`And whenever the Son of Man may come in his glory, and all the holy messengers with him, then he shall sit upon a throne of his glory; — read the full passage →

`Beware! --ye may not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you, that their messengers in the heavens do always behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens,

For, if ye do thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, If ye do judgment thoroughly Between a man and his neighbour, — read the full passage →

Jehovah is preserving the strangers, The fatherless and widow He causeth to stand, And the way of the wicked He turneth upside down.

`And a sojourner thou dost not oppress, and ye--ye have known the soul of the sojourner, for sojourners ye have been in the land of Egypt.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

What <FI>is<Fi> the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him? — read the full passage →

but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,

where there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, servant, freeman--but the all and in all--Christ.

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings; — read the full passage →

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another; — read the full passage →

and Jesus having taken up <FI>the word<Fi> , said, `A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, and having stripped him and inflicted blows, they went away, leaving <FI>him<Fi> half dead. — read the full passage →

In the street doth not lodge a stranger, My doors to the traveller I open.

And two of the messengers come towards Sodom at even, and Lot is sitting at the gate of Sodom, and Lot seeth, and riseth to meet them, and boweth himself--face to the earth, — read the full passage →

And of all things the end hath come nigh; be sober-minded, then, and watch unto the prayers,

Hearken, my brethren beloved, did not God choose the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the reign that He promised to those loving Him?

And in the neighbourhood of that place were lands of the principal man of the island, by name Publius, who, having received us, three days did courteously lodge <FI>us<Fi> ;

and he answering saith to them, `He having two coats--let him impart to him having none, and he having victuals--in like manner let him do.'

But Jesus said, `Suffer the children, and forbid them not, to come unto me, for of such is the reign of the heavens;'

Is it not to deal to the hungry thy bread, And the mourning poor bring home, That thou seest the naked and cover him, And from thine own flesh hide not thyself?

Words of a preacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem: — read the full passage →

Whoso is lending <FI>to<Fi> Jehovah is favouring the poor, And his deed He repayeth to him.

`Cursed <FI>is<Fi> he who is turning aside the judgment of fatherless, sojourner, and widow, --and all the people have said, Amen.

`When thou dost complete to tithe all the tithe of thine increase in the third year, the year of the tithe, then thou hast given to the Levite, to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, and they have eaten within thy gates, and been satisfied, — read the full passage →

`And thou hast answered and said before Jehovah thy God, A perishing Aramaean <FI>is<Fi> my father! and he goeth down to Egypt, and sojourneth there with few men, and becometh there a nation, great, mighty, and numerous;

one judgment is to you; as a sojourner so is a native; for I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah your God.'

`And in your reaping the harvest of your land thou dost not complete the corner of thy field in thy reaping, and the gleaning of thy harvest thou dost not gather, to the poor and to the sojourner thou dost leave them; I Jehovah <FI> am<Fi> your God.'

one law is to a native, and to a sojourner who is sojourning in your midst.'

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction, — read the full passage →

And having come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly, and the apostles, and the elders, they declared also as many things as God did with them;

And having entered, he was passing through Jericho, — read the full passage →

and having taken them in his arms, having put <FI>his<Fi> hands upon them, he was blessing them.

having gone, then, disciple all the nations, (baptizing them--to the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,

`He who is receiving you doth receive me, and he who is receiving me doth receive Him who sent me, — read the full passage →

and it hath come to pass, ye separate it for an inheritance to yourselves, and to the sojourners who are sojourning in your midst, who have begotten sons in your midst, and they have been to you as native, with the sons of Israel, with you they are separated for an inheritance in the midst of the tribes of Israel. — read the full passage →

Lest strangers be filled <FI>with<Fi> thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger,

And it cometh to pass on the third day, that Esther putteth on royalty, and standeth in the inner-court of the house of the king over-against the house of the king, and the king is sitting on his royal throne, in the royal-house, over-against the opening of the house, — read the full passage →

and said thus: To life! and thou, peace; and thy house, peace; and all that thou hast--peace!

`Thou dost not oppress a hireling, poor and needy, of thy brethren or of thy sojourner who is in thy land within thy gates;

He is doing the judgment of fatherless and widow, and loving the sojourner, to give to him bread and raiment. — read the full passage →

And I command your judges at that time, saying, Hearkening between your brethren--then ye have judged righteousness between a man, and his brother, and his sojourner;

`And when a sojourner sojourneth with you, then he hath prepared a passover to Jehovah, according to the statute of the passover, and according to its ordinance, so he doth; one statute is to you, even to a sojourner, and to a native of the land.'

`And when thy brother is become poor, and his hand hath failed with thee, then thou hast kept hold on him, sojourner and settler, and he hath lived with thee;

and thy vineyard thou dost not glean, even the omitted part of thy vineyard thou dost not gather, to the poor and to the sojourner thou dost leave them; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah your God.

`And a sojourner thou dost not oppress, nor crush him, for sojourners ye have been in the land of Egypt.

and the second <FI>is<Fi> like to it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;

and it hath come to pass, ye separate it for an inheritance to yourselves, and to the sojourners who are sojourning in your midst, who have begotten sons in your midst, and they have been to you as native, with the sons of Israel, with you they are separated for an inheritance in the midst of the tribes of Israel.

`Before I form thee in the belly, I have known thee; and before thou comest forth from the womb I have separated thee, a prophet to nations I have made thee.'

Thus said Jehovah, thy redeemer, And thy framer from the womb: `I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah, doing all things, Stretching out the heavens by Myself, Spreading out the earth--who <FI>is<Fi> with Me?

As thou knowest not what <FI>is<Fi> the way of the spirit, How--bones in the womb of the full one, So thou knowest not the work of God who maketh the whole.

for this youth I prayed, and Jehovah doth give to me my petition which I asked of Him; — read the full passage →

My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;

Salute all those leading you, and all the saints; salute you doth those from Italy:

`Whoever may receive one of such children in my name, doth receive me, and whoever may receive me, doth not receive me, but Him who sent me.'

`He who is receiving you doth receive me, and he who is receiving me doth receive Him who sent me,

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

and the child grew and was strengthened in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.

A Song of the Ascents, by David. Lo, how good and how pleasant The dwelling of brethren--even together! — read the full passage →

Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> sons, A reward <FI>is<Fi> the fruit of the womb. — read the full passage →

From the mouths of infants and sucklings Thou hast founded strength, Because of Thine adversaries, To still an enemy and a self-avenger.

Seek ye Jehovah and His strength, Seek His face continually.

lo, I have stood at the door, and I knock; if any one may hear my voice, and may open the door, I will come in unto him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

And having taken a child, he set him in the midst of them, and having taken him in his arms, said to them, — read the full passage →

A Song of the Ascents, by David. Lo, how good and how pleasant The dwelling of brethren--even together!