1 John 3:17
But if a man has this world's goods, and sees that his brother is in need, and keeps his heart shut against his brother, how is it possible for the love of God to be in him?
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1 John 3:17
But if a man has this world's goods, and sees that his brother is in need, and keeps his heart shut against his brother, how is it possible for the love of God to be in him?
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1 John 3:14
We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death.
1 John 3:15
Anyone who has hate for his brother is a taker of life, and you may be certain that no taker of life has eternal life in him.
1 John 3:16
In this we see what love is, because he gave his life for us; and it is right for us to give our lives for the brothers.
1 John 3:17
But if a man has this world's goods, and sees that his brother is in need, and keeps his heart shut against his brother, how is it possible for the love of God to be in him?
1 John 3:18
My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.
1 John 3:19
In this way we may be certain that we are true, and may give our heart comfort before him,
1 John 4:20
If a man says, I have love for God, and has hate for his brother, his words are false: for how is the man who has no love for his brother whom he has seen, able to have love for God whom he has not seen?
1 John 4:21
And this is the word which we have from him, that he who has love for God is to have the same love for his brother.
Romans 12:10
Be kind to one another with a brother's love, putting others before yourselves in honour;
1 John 2:9
He who says that he is in the light, and has hate in his heart for his brother, is still in the dark.
1 John 3:10
In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.
Psalms 16:3
As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the noble in whom is all my delight.
Galatians 6:2
Take on yourselves one another's troubles, and so keep the law of Christ.
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James 2:13
For the man who has had no mercy will be judged without mercy, but mercy takes pride in overcoming judging.
James 2:14
What use is it, my brothers, for a man to say that he has faith, if he does nothing? will such a faith give him salvation?
James 2:15
If a brother or a sister is without clothing and in need of the day's food,
James 2:16
And one of you says to them, Go in peace, be warm and full of food; but you do not give them the things of which their bodies have need, what profit is there in this?
James 2:17
Even so faith without works is dead.
Hebrews 6:10
For God is true, and will not put away from him the memory of your work and of your love for his name, in the help which you gave and still give to the saints.
Hebrews 13:16
But go on doing good and giving to others, because God is well-pleased with such offerings.
Galatians 6:10
So then, as we have the chance, let us do good to all men, and specially to those who are of the family of the faith.
James 1:27
The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.
Matthew 26:11
For the poor you have ever with you, but me you have not for ever.
1 Timothy 6:19
Making ready for themselves a safe place for the time to come, so that the true life may be theirs.
James 4:17
The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.
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1 John 3:23
And this is his law, that we have faith in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love for one another, even as he said to us.
1 Peter 1:22
And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:
John 15:12
This is the law I give you: Have love one for another, even as I have love for you.
1 John 2:10
He who has love for his brother is in the light, and there is no cause of error in him.
1 John 3:12
Not being of the Evil One like Cain, who put his brother to death. And why did he put him to death? Because his works were evil and his brother's works were good.
1 John 3:13
Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world has no love for you.
1 Thessalonians 4:9
But about loving the brothers, there is no need for me to say anything to you in this letter: for you have the teaching of God that love for one another is right and necessary;
Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,
2 Peter 1:7
And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself.
Psalms 119:63
I keep company with all your worshippers, and those who have your orders in their memory.
1 Peter 2:17
Have respect for all, loving the brothers, fearing God, honouring the king.
1 Peter 3:8
Last of all, see that you are all in agreement; feeling for one another, loving one another like brothers, full of pity, without pride:
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Philippians 1:8
For God is my witness, how my love goes out to you all in the loving mercies of Christ Jesus.
Philippians 2:1
If then there is any comfort in Christ, any help given by love, any uniting of hearts in the Spirit, any loving mercies and pity,
Colossians 3:12
As saints of God, then, holy and dearly loved, let your behaviour be marked by pity and mercy, kind feeling, a low opinion of yourselves, gentle ways, and a power of undergoing all things;
Luke 1:78
Because of the loving mercies of our God, by which the dawn from heaven has come to us,
2 Corinthians 6:12
It is not our feelings to you which are narrow, but yours to us.
Philemon 1:12
Whom I have sent back to you, him who is my very heart:
2 Corinthians 7:15
And his love to you is the more increased by his memory of you all, how you gave way to his authority, and how you took him to your hearts with fear and honour.
Philemon 1:20
So brother, let me have joy of you in the Lord: give new life to my heart in Christ.
Proverbs 12:10
An upright man has thought for the life of his beast, but the hearts of evil-doers are cruel.
Romans 9:3
For I have a desire to take on myself the curse for my brothers, my family in the flesh:
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Matthew 25:40
And the King will make answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, Because you did it to the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.
Romans 12:13
Giving to the needs of the saints, ready to take people into your houses.
Luke 3:11
And he made answer and said to them, He who has two coats, let him give to him who has not even one; and he who has food, let him do the same.
Luke 6:35
But be loving to those who are against you and do them good, and give them your money, not giving up hope, and your reward will be great and you will be the sons of the Most High: for he is kind to evil men, and to those who have hard hearts.
Luke 6:36
Be full of pity, even as your Father is full of pity.
John 12:8
The poor you have ever with you, but me you have not for ever.
2 Corinthians 9:6
But in the Writings it says, He who puts in only a small number of seeds, will get in the same; and he who puts them in from a full hand, will have produce in full measure from them.
2 Corinthians 9:7
Let every man do after the purpose of his heart; not giving with grief, or by force: for God takes pleasure in a ready giver.
2 Corinthians 9:8
And God is able to give you all grace in full measure; so that ever having enough of all things, you may be full of every good work:
2 Corinthians 9:9
As it is said in the Writings, He has sent out far and wide, he has given to the poor; his righteousness is for ever.
1 Timothy 6:18
And to do good, having wealth in good works, being quick to give, taking part with one another;
Mark 14:7
The poor you have ever with you, and whenever you have the desire you may do them good: but me you have not for ever.
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2 Corinthians 8:9
For you see the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, how though he had wealth, he became poor on your account, so that through his need you might have wealth.
Galatians 2:10
Only it was their desire that we would give thought to the poor; which very thing I had much in mind to do.
2 Corinthians 8:14
But so that things may be equal; that from those things of which you have more than enough at the present time their need may be helped, and that if you are in any need they may be a help to you in the same way, making things equal.
2 Corinthians 8:15
As it says in the Writings, He who had taken up much had nothing over and he who had little had enough.
Acts 4:32
And all those who were of the faith were one in heart and soul: and not one of them said that any of the things which he had was his property only; but they had all things in common.
Acts 11:29
And the disciples, everyone as he was able, made a decision to send help to the brothers living in Judaea:
Acts 11:30
Which they did, sending it to the rulers of the church by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.
Acts 2:45
And exchanging their goods and property for money, they made division of it among them all, as they had need.
Acts 4:34
And no one among them was in need; for everyone who had land or houses, exchanging them for money, took the price of them,
2 Corinthians 8:2
How while they were undergoing every sort of trouble, and were in the greatest need, they took all the greater joy in being able to give freely to the needs of others.
2 Corinthians 8:3
For I give them witness, that as they were able, and even more than they were able, they gave from the impulse of their hearts,
2 Corinthians 8:4
Seriously requesting us that they might have a part in this grace of being servants to the needs of the saints:
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2 Corinthians 8:5
And going even farther than our hope, they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us after the purpose of God.
2 Corinthians 8:6
So that we made a request to Titus that, as he had made a start before, so he might make this grace complete in you.
2 Corinthians 8:7
And that as you are full of every good thing, of faith, of the word, of knowledge, of a ready mind, and of love to us, so you may be full of this grace in the same way.
2 Corinthians 8:8
I am not giving you an order, but using the ready mind of others as a test of the quality of your love.
2 Corinthians 9:12
For this work of giving not only takes care of the needs of the saints, but is the cause of much praise to God;
2 Corinthians 9:13
For when, through this work of giving, they see what you are, they give glory to God for the way in which you have given yourselves to the good news of Christ, and for the wealth of your giving to them and to all;
2 Corinthians 9:14
While their hearts go out to you in love and in prayer for you, because of the great grace of God which is in you.
2 Corinthians 9:15
Praise be to God for what he has given, which words have no power to say.
1 Corinthians 16:1
Now about the giving of money for the saints, as I gave orders to the churches of Galatia, so do you.
2 Corinthians 9:1
But there is no need for me to say anything in my letter about the giving to the saints:
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1 John 3:20
When our heart says that we have done wrong; because God is greater than our heart, and has knowledge of all things.
1 John 3:21
My loved ones, if our heart does not say that we have done wrong, we have no fear before him;
1 John 3:22
And he gives us all our requests, because we keep his laws and do the things which are pleasing in his eyes.
1 John 4:7
My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.
1 John 4:8
He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.
1 John 4:9
And the love of God was made clear to us when he sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him.
1 John 4:10
And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an offering for our sins.
1 John 5:1
Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child.
1 John 5:2
In this way, we are certain that we have love for the children of God, when we have love for God and keep his laws.
1 John 3:24
He who keeps his laws is in God and God is in him. And the Spirit which he gave us is our witness that he is in us.
1 John 4:12
No man has ever seen God: if we have love for one another, God is in us and his love is made complete in us:
Galatians 5:13
Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another.
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Matthew 25:34
Then will the King say to those on his right, Come, you who have the blessing of my Father, into the kingdom made ready for you before the world was:
Matthew 25:35
For I was in need of food, and you gave it to me: I was in need of drink, and you gave it to me: I was wandering, and you took me in;
Matthew 25:36
I had no clothing, and you gave it to me: when I was ill, or in prison, you came to me.
Matthew 25:37
Then will the upright make answer to him, saying, Lord, when did we see you in need of food, and give it to you? or in need of drink, and give it to you?
Matthew 25:38
And when did we see you wandering, and take you in? or without clothing, and give it to you?
Matthew 25:39
And when did we see you ill, or in prison, and come to you?
Matthew 25:41
Then will he say to those on the left, Go from me, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire which is ready for the Evil One and his angels:
Matthew 25:42
For I was in need of food, and you gave it not to me; I was in need of drink, and you gave it not to me:
Matthew 25:43
I was wandering, and you took me not in; without clothing, and you gave me no clothing; ill, and in prison, and you came not to me.
Matthew 25:44
Then will they make answer, saying, Lord, when did we see you in need of food or drink, or wandering, or without clothing, or ill, or in prison, and did not take care of you?
Matthew 25:45
Then will he make answer to them, saying, Truly I say to you, Because you did it not to the least of these, you did it not to me.
Matthew 25:46
And these will go away into eternal punishment; but the upright into eternal life.
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1 John 4:11
My loved ones, if God had such love for us, it is right for us to have love for one another.
John 13:34
I give you a new law: Have love one for another; even as I have had love for you, so are you to have love one for another.
Ephesians 5:2
And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.
1 John 5:3
For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.
John 5:42
But I have knowledge of you that you have no love for God in your hearts.
John 14:15
If you have love for me, you will keep my laws.
Romans 12:9
Let love be without deceit. Be haters of what is evil; keep your minds fixed on what is good.
1 Corinthians 13:4
Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride;
1 Corinthians 13:5
Love's ways are ever fair, it takes no thought for itself; it is not quickly made angry, it takes no account of evil;
Ephesians 4:32
And be kind to one another, full of pity, having forgiveness for one another, even as God in Christ had forgiveness for you.
1 Peter 1:23
Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.
1 Peter 4:8
And most of all be warm in your love for one another; because in love there is forgiveness for sins without number:
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Deuteronomy 15:7
If in any of your towns in the land which the Lord your God is giving you, there is a poor man, one of your countrymen, do not let your heart be hard or your hand shut to him;
Deuteronomy 15:8
But let your hand be open to give him the use of whatever he is in need of.
Deuteronomy 15:9
And see that there is no evil thought in your heart, moving you to say to yourself, The seventh year, the year of forgiveness is near; and so looking coldly on your poor countryman you give him nothing; and he will make an outcry to the Lord against you, and it will be judged as sin in you.
Deuteronomy 15:10
But it is right for you to give to him, without grief of heart: for because of this, the blessing of the Lord your God will be on all your work and on everything to which you put your hand.
Deuteronomy 15:11
For there will never be a time when there are no poor in the land; and so I give orders to you, Let your hand be open to your countrymen, to those who are poor and in need in your land.
Psalms 112:9
He has given with open hands to the poor; his righteousness is for ever; his horn will be lifted up with honour.
Job 30:25
Have I not been weeping for the crushed? and was not my soul sad for him who was in need?
Job 31:15
Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies?
Job 31:16
If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;
Psalms 41:1
To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. Happy is the man who gives thought to the poor; the Lord will be his saviour in the time of trouble.
Proverbs 3:27
Do not keep back good from those who have a right to it, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
Proverbs 14:21
He who has no respect for his neighbour is a sinner, but he who has pity for the poor is happy.
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Isaiah 63:15
Let your eyes be looking down from heaven, from your holy and beautiful house: where is your deep feeling, the working of your power? do not keep back the moving of your pity and your mercies:
Jeremiah 31:20
Is Ephraim my dear son? is he the child of my delight? for whenever I say things against him, I still keep him in my memory: so my heart is troubled for him; I will certainly have mercy on him, says the Lord.
Genesis 43:30
Then Joseph's heart went out to his brother, and he went quickly into his room, for he was overcome with weeping.
1 Kings 3:26
Then the mother of the living child came forward, for her heart went out to her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the child; do not on any account put it to death. But the other woman said, It will not be mine or yours; let it be cut in two.
Psalms 25:6
O Lord, keep in mind your pity and your mercies; for they have been from the earliest times.
Hosea 11:8
How may I give you up, O Ephraim? how may I be your saviour, O Israel? how may I make you like Admah? how may I do to you as I did to Zeboim? My heart is turned in me, it is soft with pity.
Psalms 77:9
Has God put away the memory of his pity? are his mercies shut up by his wrath? (Selah.)
Song of Solomon 5:4
My loved one put his hand on the door, and my heart was moved for him.
Isaiah 16:11
For this cause the cords of my heart are sounding for Moab, and I am full of sorrow for Kir-heres.
Isaiah 49:15
Will a woman give up the child at her breast, will she be without pity for the fruit of her body? yes, these may, but I will not let you go out of my memory.
James 5:11
We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.
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Proverbs 14:31
He who is hard on the poor puts shame on his Maker; but he who has mercy on those who are in need gives him honour.
Proverbs 19:17
He who has pity on the poor gives to the Lord, and the Lord will give him his reward.
Isaiah 58:7
Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh?
Isaiah 58:8
Then will light be shining on you like the morning, and your wounds will quickly be well: and your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will come after you.
Isaiah 58:9
Then at the sound of your voice, the Lord will give an answer; at your cry he will say, Here am I. If you take away from among you the yoke, the putting out of the finger of shame, and the evil word;
Isaiah 58:10
And if you give your bread to those in need of it, so that the troubled one may have his desire; then you will have light in the dark, and your night will be as the full light of the sun:
Isaiah 58:11
And the Lord will be your guide at all times; in dry places he will give you water in full measure, and will make strong your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like an ever-flowing spring.
Proverbs 17:5
Whoever makes sport of the poor puts shame on his Maker; and he who is glad because of trouble will not go free from punishment.
Proverbs 21:13
He whose ears are stopped at the cry of the poor, will himself get no answer to his cry for help.
Ecclesiastes 11:1
Put out your bread on the face of the waters; for after a long time it will come back to you again.
Matthew 5:42
Give to him who comes with a request, and keep not your property from him who would for a time make use of it.
Matthew 18:30
And he would not: but went and put him into prison till he had made payment of the debt.
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Philemon 1:7
For I had great joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been made strong again through you, brother.
Ezekiel 33:31
And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves.
Philemon 1:5
Hearing of the love and the faith which you have to the Lord Jesus and to all the saints;
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Luke 10:28
And he said, You have given the right answer: do this and you will have life.
Luke 10:29
But he, desiring to put himself in the right, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbour?
Luke 10:30
And Jesus, answering him, said, A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he got into the hands of thieves, who took his clothing and gave him cruel blows, and when they went away, he was half dead.
Luke 10:31
And by chance a certain priest was going down that way: and when he saw him, he went by on the other side.
Luke 10:32
And in the same way, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, went by on the other side.
Luke 10:33
But a certain man of Samaria, journeying that way, came where he was, and when he saw him, he was moved with pity for him,
Luke 10:34
And came to him and put clean linen round his wounds, with oil and wine; and he put him on his beast and took him to a house and took care of him.
Luke 10:35
And the day after he took two pennies and gave them to the owner of the house and said, Take care of him; and if this money is not enough, when I come again I will give you whatever more is needed.
Luke 10:36
Which of these three men, in your opinion, was neighbour to the man who came into the hands of thieves?
Luke 10:37
And he said, The one who had mercy on him. And Jesus said, Go and do the same.
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1 John 2:15
Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
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Proverbs 24:11
Be the saviour of those who are given up to death, and do not keep back help from those who are slipping to destruction.
Proverbs 11:26
He who keeps back grain will be cursed by the people; but a blessing will be on the head of him who lets them have it for a price.
Isaiah 5:8
Cursed are those who are joining house to house, and putting field to field, till there is no more living-space for any but themselves in all the land!
Ezekiel 34:18
Does it seem a small thing to you to have taken your food on good grass-land while the rest of your grass-land is stamped down under your feet? and that after drinking from clear waters you make the rest of the waters dirty with your feet?
Hosea 10:1
Israel is a branching vine, full of fruit; as his fruit is increased, so the number of his altars is increased; as the land is fair, so they have made fair pillars.
Habakkuk 2:6
Will not all these take up a word of shame against him and a bitter saying against him, and say, A curse on him who goes on taking what is not his and is weighted down with the property of debtors!
Zechariah 7:6
And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves?
2 Timothy 3:2
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, uplifted in pride, given to bitter words, going against the authority of their fathers, never giving praise, having no religion,
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Mark 12:44
Because they all put in something out of what they had no need for; but she out of her need put in all she had, even all her living.
Luke 15:12
And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me that part of your property which will be mine. And he made division of his goods between them.
Luke 8:14
And those which went among thorns are those who have given hearing, and go on their way, but they are overcome by cares and wealth and the pleasures of life, and they give no fruit.
Luke 8:43
And a woman, who had had a flow of blood for twelve years, and had given all her money to medical men, and not one of them was able to make her well,
Luke 15:30
But when this your son came, who has been wasting your property with bad women, you put to death the fat young ox for him.
Luke 21:4
For they gave out of their wealth, having more than enough for themselves: but she, even out of her need, has put in all her living.
2 Timothy 2:4
A fighting man, when he is with the army, keeps himself free from the business of this life so that he may be pleasing to him who has taken him into his army.
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2 John 1:5
And now, my sister, I make a request to you, not sending you a new law, but the law which we had from the first, that we have love for one another.
1 John 2:4
The man who says, I have knowledge of him, and does not keep his laws, is false, and there is nothing true in him:
1 John 2:7
My loved ones, I do not give you a new law, but an old law which you had from the first; this old law is the word which came to your ears.
1 John 2:8
Again, I give you a new law, which is true in him and in you; for the night is near its end and the true light is even now shining out.
John 15:13
Greater love has no man than this, that a man gives up his life for his friends.
John 15:23
He who has hate for me has hate for my Father.
1 John 3:6
Anyone who is in him does no sin; anyone who is a sinner has not seen him and has no knowledge of him.
1 John 3:9
Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.
1 John 3:11
Because this is the word which was given to you from the first, that we are to have love for one another;
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Matthew 27:3
Then Judas, who was false to him, seeing that he was to be put to death, in his regret took back the thirty bits of silver to the chief priests and those in authority,
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Matthew 27:4
Saying, I have done wrong in giving into your hands an upright man. But they said, What is that to us? it is your business.
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1 John 2:16
Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.
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3 John 1:7
For they went out for love of the Name, taking nothing from the Gentiles.
3 John 1:8
So it is right for us to take in such men as guests, so that we may take our part in the work of the true faith.
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