Matthew 25:40
“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.’
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Matthew 25:40
“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.’
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Matthew 25:41
Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
Matthew 25:42
for I was hungry, and you didn’t give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink;
Matthew 25:43
I was a stranger, and you didn’t take me in; naked, and you didn’t clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’
Matthew 25:44
“Then they will also answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn’t help you?’
Matthew 25:45
“Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’
Matthew 25:34
Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
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.
Matthew 6:4
so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
Proverbs 11:18
Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.
Matthew 6:1
“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
2 Thessalonians 1:7
and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,
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Matthew 10:40
“He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.
Matthew 10:41
He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. He who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward.
Matthew 10:42
Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.”
Mark 9:41
For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name because you are Christ’s, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.
1 Corinthians 8:12
Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
Matthew 18:10
See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
Luke 10:16
Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”
John 13:20
Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me.”
Exodus 16:8
Moses said, “Now Yahweh will give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you, because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh.”
1 Thessalonians 4:8
Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.
1 Kings 18:4
for when Jezebel cut off Yahweh’s prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
2 Corinthians 5:20
We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
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Matthew 25:36
I was naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison and you came to me.’
Matthew 25:37
“Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you a drink?
Matthew 25:38
When did we see you as a stranger and take you in, or naked and clothe you?
Matthew 25:39
When did we see you sick or in prison and come to you?’
Matthew 25:46
These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Nehemiah 5:19
Remember me, my God, for all the good that I have done for this people.
Nehemiah 13:22
I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember me for this also, my God, and spare me according to the greatness of your loving kindness.
Nehemiah 13:31
and for the wood offering, at appointed times, and for the first fruits. Remember me, my God, for good.
Isaiah 3:10
Tell the righteous that it will be well with them, for they will eat the fruit of their deeds.
Matthew 6:14
“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
Matthew 16:27
For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.
2 Timothy 4:8
From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.
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Hebrews 6:10
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.
Proverbs 14:31
He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.
Proverbs 17:5
Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.
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.
Hebrews 13:1
Let brotherly love continue.
Hebrews 13:3
Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.
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;
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);
Proverbs 19:19
A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty, for if you rescue him, you must do it again.
Ecclesiastes 11:1
Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.
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Acts 9:4
He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”
Acts 9:5
He said, “Who are you, Lord?” The Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
Zechariah 2:8
For Yahweh of Armies says: ‘For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.
Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”
Numbers 24:9
He couched, he lay down as a lion, as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Everyone who blesses you is blessed. Everyone who curses you is cursed.”
1 Corinthians 12:12
For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.
Genesis 27:29
Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you.”
Acts 26:14
When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’
Acts 26:15
“I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ “He said, ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
Exodus 23:22
But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.
Psalms 122:6
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Those who love you will prosper.
Acts 22:8
I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ He said to me, ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you persecute.’
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Proverbs 19:17
He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.
Job 31:15
Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?
Job 31:16
“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
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.
Psalms 41:1
Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.
Psalms 41:2
Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.
Psalms 41:3
Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness.
Psalms 112:9
He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.
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;
Proverbs 14:21
He who despises his neighbor sins, but he who has pity on the poor is blessed.
Proverbs 22:2
The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.
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Matthew 12:48
But he answered him who spoke to him, “Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?”
Matthew 12:49
He stretched out his hand toward his disciples, and said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers!
Matthew 12:50
For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”
Luke 8:21
But he answered them, “My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it.”
Mark 3:34
Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers!
Mark 3:35
For whoever does the will of God is my brother, my sister, and mother.”
Luke 11:27
It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!”
Luke 11:28
But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
John 19:27
Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.
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Hebrews 2:11
For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,
Hebrews 2:12
saying, “I will declare your name to my brothers. Among the congregation I will sing your praise.”
Hebrews 2:13
Again, “I will put my trust in him.” Again, “Behold, here I am with the children whom God has given me.”
Hebrews 2:14
Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
Hebrews 2:15
and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
Hebrews 2:16
For most certainly, he doesn’t give help to angels, but he gives help to the offspring of Abraham.
Hebrews 2:17
Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.
Romans 8:29
For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
Matthew 28:10
Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t be afraid. Go tell my brothers that they should go into Galilee, and there they will see me.”
John 20:17
Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”
Psalms 22:22
I will declare your name to my brothers. Among the assembly, I will praise you.
Colossians 3:11
where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.
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Matthew 18:3
and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Matthew 18:4
Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Matthew 18:5
Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,
Matthew 18:6
but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if a huge millstone were hung around his neck and that he were sunk in the depths of the sea.
Luke 9:48
and said to them, “Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me. Whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For whoever is least among you all, this one will be great.”
Mark 9:37
“Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me; and whoever receives me, doesn’t receive me, but him who sent me.”
Mark 9:42
“Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he were thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck.
Galatians 4:14
That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
Matthew 18:14
Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
Luke 17:2
It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.
John 12:44
Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me.
John 12:45
He who sees me sees him who sent me.
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1 John 3:13
Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.
1 John 3:14
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.
1 John 3:15
Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.
1 John 3:16
By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
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 John 3:18
My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
1 John 3:19
And by this we know that we are of the truth and persuade our hearts before him,
1 John 3:20
because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
2 Corinthians 8:9
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
1 John 5:1
Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.
1 John 5:2
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.
2 Corinthians 8:7
But as you abound in everything—in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us—see that you also abound in this grace.
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Matthew 25:31
“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.
Matthew 25:32
Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
Matthew 25:33
He will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
Daniel 12:3
Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine as the stars forever and ever.
Matthew 6:6
But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
Luke 13:27
He will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’
1 Corinthians 9:17
For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
2 John 1:8
Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.
Revelation 2:10
Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
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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Hebrews 13:2
Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.
Romans 12:13
contributing to the needs of the saints, and given to hospitality.
3 John 1:5
Beloved, you do a faithful work in whatever you accomplish for those who are brothers and strangers.
3 John 1:6
They have testified about your love before the assembly. You will do well to send them forward on their journey in a way worthy of God,
3 John 1:7
because for the sake of the Name they went out, taking nothing from the Gentiles.
3 John 1:8
We therefore ought to receive such, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.
Genesis 19:2
and he said, “See now, my lords, please come into your servant’s house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your way.” They said, “No, but we will stay in the street all night.”
Genesis 19:3
He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
2 Kings 4:10
Please, let’s make a little room on the roof. Let’s set a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp stand for him there. When he comes to us, he can stay there.”
Romans 16:2
that you receive her in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints, and that you assist her in whatever matter she may need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, and of my own self.
1 Timothy 5:10
being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.
1 Peter 4:9
Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.
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Philippians 4:17
Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.
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;
John 12:8
For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.”
2 Corinthians 9:5
I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness.
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.
Ezekiel 18:7
and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;
Mark 14:7
For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.
Luke 3:11
He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”
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.”
Luke 6:38
“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.”
Galatians 2:10
They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do.
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Matthew 26:11
For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.
Luke 8:3
and Joanna, the wife of Chuzas, Herod’s steward; Susanna; and many others who served them from their possessions.
Philippians 4:18
But I have all things and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.
1 Timothy 6:19
laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life.
2 Timothy 1:16
May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,
1 Peter 4:11
If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Psalms 18:25
With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.
2 Corinthians 9:12
For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through much giving of thanks to God,
2 Corinthians 9:13
seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ and for the generosity of your contribution to them and to all,
2 Corinthians 9:14
while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.
Philemon 1:7
For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.
James 1:27
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.
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Luke 14:13
But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;
Luke 14:14
and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.”
Galatians 6:8
For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
Galatians 6:9
Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season if we don’t give up.
Galatians 6:10
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.
Matthew 5:7
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
Acts 20:35
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.’”
Hebrews 13:16
But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Romans 12:8
or he who exhorts, to his exhorting; he who gives, let him do it with generosity; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
1 Timothy 6:18
that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to share;
James 2:5
Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
James 2:15
And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,
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Matthew 23:8
But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi’, for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.
John 21:23
This saying therefore went out among the brothers that this disciple wouldn’t die. Yet Jesus didn’t say to him that he wouldn’t die, but, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?”
Revelation 12:10
I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.
Revelation 19:10
I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, “Look! Don’t do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy.”
Colossians 1:18
He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Hebrews 2:18
For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.
Hebrews 4:15
For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.
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2 Timothy 1:18
(the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.
Romans 15:25
But now, I say, I am going to Jerusalem, serving the saints.
Romans 15:26
For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints who are at Jerusalem.
Hebrews 6:11
We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,
Proverbs 11:17
The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.
Ecclesiastes 5:8
If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.
Jeremiah 49:11
Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me.”
Luke 16:9
I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.
Acts 9:36
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.
Acts 9:39
Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the tunics and other garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.
Hebrews 10:34
For you both had compassion on me in my chains and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.
1 Peter 3:8
Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,
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Philemon 1:9
yet for love’s sake I rather appeal to you, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
Philemon 1:10
I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whom I have become the father of in my chains,
Philemon 1:11
who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me.
Philemon 1:12
I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,
Philemon 1:17
If then you count me a partner, receive him as you would receive me.
Philippians 2:29
Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such people in honor,
Colossians 4:10
Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, greets you, and Mark the cousin of Barnabas (concerning whom you received instructions, “if he comes to you, receive him”),
Philemon 1:20
Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the Lord.
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John 21:15
So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”
John 21:16
He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.”
John 21:17
He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.
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Isaiah 23:18
Her merchandise and her wages will be holiness to Yahweh. It will not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise will be for those who dwell before Yahweh, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
Romans 15:27
Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in material things.
Philippians 2:17
Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.
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Isaiah 63:9
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
Ephesians 5:30
because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.
John 17:21
that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.
1 Corinthians 12:26
When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
2 Corinthians 1:5
For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.
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2 Corinthians 8:8
I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
Galatians 5:6
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision amounts to anything, but faith working through love.
1 John 4:21
This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.
Psalms 16:2
My soul, you have said to Yahweh, “You are my Lord. Apart from you I have no good thing.”
Psalms 16:3
As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.
John 14:15
If you love me, keep my commandments.
John 14:21
One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
John 15:10
If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, even as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.
John 15:14
You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.
1 John 3:21
Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;
1 John 3:23
This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.
1 John 4:19
We love him, because he first loved us.
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Matthew 20:27
Whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant,
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Matthew 20:28
even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
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Luke 22:28
“But you are those who have continued with me in my trials.
Luke 22:29
I confer on you a kingdom, even as my Father conferred on me,
Luke 22:30
that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom. You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”
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