Isaiah 58:8
Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.
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Isaiah 58:8
Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.
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Isaiah 58:7
Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?
Deuteronomy 15:10
You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because it is for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you put your hand to.
Deuteronomy 15:11
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.
Proverbs 19:17
He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.
Psalms 41:1
Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.
Proverbs 11:24
There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.
Proverbs 11:25
The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.
Deuteronomy 14:29
The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, as well as the foreigner living among you, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
Proverbs 3:9
Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase;
Proverbs 3:10
so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.
Proverbs 22:9
He who has a generous eye will be blessed, for he shares his food with the poor.
Proverbs 28:27
One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.
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Isaiah 58:9
Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;
Isaiah 58:10
and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday;
Isaiah 58:11
and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.
Isaiah 58:12
Those who will be of you will build the old waste places. You will raise up the foundations of many generations. You will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of Paths with Dwellings.
2 Corinthians 9:6
Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
2 Corinthians 9:7
Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
2 Corinthians 9:8
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.
2 Corinthians 9:9
As it is written, “He has scattered abroad. He has given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever.”
2 Corinthians 9:10
Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,
Luke 11:41
But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.
Malachi 3:10
Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be enough room for.
Luke 6:35
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.
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Isaiah 58:2
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments. They delight to draw near to God.
Isaiah 58:3
‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress all your laborers.
Isaiah 58:4
Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness. You don’t fast today so as to make your voice to be heard on high.
Isaiah 58:5
Is this the fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to humble his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under himself? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh?
Isaiah 58:6
“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
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Isaiah 52:12
For you shall not go out in haste, neither shall you go by flight; for Yahweh will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
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Job 11:17
Life will be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it will be as the morning.
Isaiah 60:1
“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you!
Isaiah 60:2
For behold, darkness will cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.
Isaiah 60:3
Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
Proverbs 4:18
But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.
Psalms 37:6
he will make your righteousness shine out like light, and your justice as the noon day sun.
Psalms 112:4
Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.
2 Samuel 23:4
shall be as the light of the morning when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’
Malachi 4:2
But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out and leap like calves of the stall.
Song of Solomon 6:10
Who is she who looks out as the morning, beautiful as the moon, clear as the sun, and awesome as an army with banners?
Isaiah 60:20
Your sun will not go down any more, nor will your moon withdraw itself; for Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning will end.
Hosea 6:3
Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”
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Exodus 14:19
The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them.
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Numbers 10:25
The standard of the camp of the children of Dan, which was the rear guard of all the camps, set forward according to their armies. Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai was over his army.
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Jeremiah 33:6
behold, I will bring it health and healing, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.
Isaiah 1:6
From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it, but wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven’t been closed, bandaged, or soothed with oil.
Jeremiah 8:22
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
Jeremiah 30:17
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.’ ”
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Isaiah 58:14
then you will delight yourself in Yahweh, and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth, and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father;” for Yahweh’s mouth has spoken it.
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Psalms 97:11
Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
Ephesians 5:8
For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
Job 22:28
You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.
Isaiah 9:2
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death.
Micah 7:9
I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light. I will see his righteousness.
John 8:12
Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
Romans 13:12
The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the deeds of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.
Philippians 2:15
that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
1 Thessalonians 5:6
so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.
1 John 2:10
He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.
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Deuteronomy 15:7
If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;
Deuteronomy 15:8
but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks.
Deuteronomy 15:9
Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.
Psalms 112:9
He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.
Ecclesiastes 11:1
Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.
Nehemiah 8:10
Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”
Job 22:7
You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
Ezekiel 18:16
hasn’t wronged any, hasn’t taken anything to pledge, hasn’t taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;
Daniel 4:27
Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”
Matthew 25:35
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.
Luke 6:37
Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.
2 Corinthians 9:11
you being enriched in everything for all generosity, which produces thanksgiving to God through us.
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Job 31:16
“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
Job 31:17
or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it
Job 31:18
(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, I have guided her from my mother’s womb);
Job 31:19
if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;
Job 31:20
if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;
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Isaiah 1:15
When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
Isaiah 1:16
Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.
Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
1 John 3:22
so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
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Isaiah 42:9
Behold, the former things have happened and I declare new things. I tell you about them before they come up.”
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Isaiah 43:19
Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs out now. Don’t you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
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Acts 10:4
He, fastening his eyes on him and being frightened, said, “What is it, Lord?” He said to him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.
Acts 10:31
and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.
Psalms 85:13
Righteousness goes before him, And prepares the way for his steps.
Acts 10:2
a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.
Acts 10:35
but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.
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Ecclesiastes 11:2
Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight; for you don’t know what evil will be on the earth.
1 John 3:17
But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?
1 Timothy 6:18
that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to share;
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Exodus 14:20
It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel. There was the cloud and the darkness, yet it gave light by night. One didn’t come near the other all night.
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Joshua 6:9
The armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the ark went after them. The trumpets sounded as they went.
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Psalms 67:2
That your way may be known on earth, and your salvation among all nations,
Isaiah 30:26
Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.
Isaiah 57:18
I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
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Isaiah 4:5
Yahweh will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for over all the glory will be a canopy.
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Isaiah 40:5
Yahweh’s glory shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”
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Isaiah 58:13
“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy of Yahweh honorable, and honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,
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Isaiah 59:5
They hatch adders’ eggs and weave the spider’s web. He who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
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Isaiah 32:16
Then justice will dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness will remain in the fruitful field.
Isaiah 35:2
It will blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. Lebanon’s glory will be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon. They will see Yahweh’s glory, the excellence of our God.
Isaiah 61:11
For as the earth produces its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring up, so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.
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James 2:14
What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?
James 2:15
And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,
James 2:16
and one of you tells them, “Go in peace. Be warmed and filled;” yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it?
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Psalms 73:24
You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
Revelation 14:13
I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their works follow with them.”
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