Proverbs 17:5
Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.
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Proverbs 17:5
Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.
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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.”
Psalms 105:15
“Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”
John 15:18
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
John 15:19
If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
1 John 3:12
unlike Cain, who was of the evil one and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.
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 3:18
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,
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Leviticus 1:14
“ ‘If his offering to Yahweh is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall offer his offering from turtledoves or of young pigeons.
Luke 21:2
He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins.
Luke 21:3
He said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them,
Luke 21:4
for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on.”
2 Corinthians 8:12
For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.
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Judges 16:25
When their hearts were merry, they said, “Call for Samson, that he may entertain us.” They called for Samson out of the prison; and he performed before them. They set him between the pillars;
2 Samuel 1:12
They mourned, wept, and fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Yahweh, and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.
Job 30:25
Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?
Psalms 14:6
You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.
Psalms 35:13
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.
Psalms 35:14
I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.
Isaiah 53:3
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.
Jeremiah 17:16
As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you. I haven’t desired the woeful day. You know. That which came out of my lips was before your face.
Jeremiah 20:7
Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day. Everyone mocks me.
Luke 19:41
When he came near, he saw the city and wept over it,
Romans 12:15
Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.
1 Corinthians 13:7
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
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1 Samuel 2:8
He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.
Job 31:30
(I have certainly not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);
Job 35:5
Look to the skies, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.
Psalms 52:6
The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying,
Psalms 62:9
Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.
Proverbs 3:34
Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.
Proverbs 24:14
so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul. If you have found it, then there will be a reward: Your hope will not be cut off.
Proverbs 29:13
The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: Yahweh gives sight to the eyes of both.
Luke 1:52
He has put down princes from their thrones, and has exalted the lowly.
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,
James 1:9
Let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;
James 2:3
and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing and say, “Sit here in a good place;” and you tell the poor man, “Stand there,” or “Sit by my footstool”
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2 Samuel 4:10
when someone told me, ‘Behold, Saul is dead,’ thinking that he brought good news, I seized him and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.
2 Samuel 4:11
How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, should I not now require his blood from your hand, and rid the earth of you?”
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2 Samuel 16:9
Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head.”
2 Samuel 16:10
The king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said to him, ‘Curse David,’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’ ”
2 Samuel 16:11
David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my son, who came out of my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him.
2 Samuel 16:12
It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay me good for the cursing of me today.”
2 Samuel 16:13
So David and his men went by the way; and Shimei went along on the hillside opposite him and cursed as he went, threw stones at him, and threw dust.
2 Samuel 16:14
The king and all the people who were with him arrived weary; and he refreshed himself there.
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Job 35:6
If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
Psalms 22:24
For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.
Proverbs 11:12
One who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding holds his peace.
Proverbs 18:3
When wickedness comes, contempt also comes, and with shame comes disgrace.
Isaiah 28:11
But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in another language,
Zechariah 11:7
So I fed the flock to be slaughtered, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called “Favor” and the other I called “Union”, and I fed the flock.
Zechariah 11:11
It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was Yahweh’s word.
Luke 18:9
He also spoke this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others:
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.
1 Corinthians 16:15
Now I beg you, brothers—you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to serve the saints—
Philemon 1:5
hearing of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints,
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Psalms 41:8
“An evil disease”, they say, “has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.”
Psalms 42:10
As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
Psalms 71:10
For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together,
Psalms 71:11
saying, “God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him.”
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Psalms 80:7
Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
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Psalms 140:10
Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise.
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Proverbs 3:3
Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Proverbs 11:17
The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.
Proverbs 14:22
Don’t they go astray who plot evil? But love and faithfulness belong to those who plan good.
Proverbs 20:28
Love and faithfulness keep the king safe. His throne is sustained by love.
Proverbs 21:21
He who follows after righteousness and kindness finds life, righteousness, and honor.
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Proverbs 10:31
The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.
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Proverbs 17:3
The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.
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Proverbs 17:2
A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who causes shame, and shall have a part in the inheritance among the brothers.
Proverbs 17:8
A bribe is a precious stone in the eyes of him who gives it; wherever he turns, he prospers.
Proverbs 17:16
Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?
Proverbs 17:19
He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.
Proverbs 17:22
A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Proverbs 17:23
A wicked man receives a bribe in secret, to pervert the ways of justice.
Proverbs 17:24
Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.
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Proverbs 13:23
An abundance of food is in poor people’s fields, but injustice sweeps it away.
Proverbs 19:19
A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty, for if you rescue him, you must do it again.
Proverbs 21:10
The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.
Jeremiah 22:13
“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;
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Leviticus 25:25
“ ‘If your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possessions, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and redeem that which his brother has sold.
Leviticus 25:35
“ ‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you, then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.
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.
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 21:13
Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.
Proverbs 22:22
Don’t exploit the poor because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;
Proverbs 28:8
He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.
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?
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;
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.
John 12:8
For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.”
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Psalms 140:9
As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
Proverbs 19:5
A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.
Proverbs 24:28
Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.
Proverbs 25:22
for you will heap coals of fire on his head, and Yahweh will reward you.
Jeremiah 18:23
Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me. Don’t forgive their iniquity. Don’t blot out their sin from your sight, Let them be overthrown before you. Deal with them in the time of your anger.
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Job 36:5
“Behold, God is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.
Proverbs 19:7
All the relatives of the poor shun him; how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.
Proverbs 19:22
That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness. A poor man is better than a liar.
Proverbs 28:20
A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.
Matthew 6:25
Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
Matthew 6:26
See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?
Matthew 11:5
the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
Romans 12:16
Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.
Philippians 4:11
Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.
Philippians 4:12
I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.
Philippians 4:13
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
1 Timothy 6:6
But godliness with contentment is great gain.
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Proverbs 31:13
She seeks wool and flax, and works eagerly with her hands.
Proverbs 31:15
She rises also while it is yet night, gives food to her household, and portions for her servant girls.
Proverbs 31:29
“Many women do noble things, but you excel them all.”
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Ecclesiastes 9:15
Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Ecclesiastes 9:16
Then I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.” Nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
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Jeremiah 34:10
All the princes and all the people obeyed who had entered into the covenant, that everyone should let his male servant and everyone his female servant go free, that no one should make bondservants of them any more. They obeyed and let them go,
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Jeremiah 34:11
but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids whom they had let go free to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
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Jeremiah 46:27
“But don’t you be afraid, Jacob my servant. Don’t be dismayed, Israel; for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob will return, and will be quiet and at ease. No one will make him afraid.
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Jeremiah 46:28
Don’t be afraid, O Jacob my servant,” says Yahweh, “for I am with you; for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven you, but I will not make a full end of you, but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.”
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Psalms 137:7
Remember, Yahweh, against the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem, who said, “Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!”
Isaiah 47:6
I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy. You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.
Jeremiah 50:11
“Because you are glad, because you rejoice, O you who plunder my heritage, because you are wanton as a heifer that treads out the grain, and neigh as strong horses,
Lamentations 2:15
All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”
Lamentations 2:16
All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”
Ezekiel 36:2
The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because the enemy has said against you, “Aha!” and, “The ancient high places are ours in possession!” ’
Ezekiel 36:3
therefore prophesy, and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people;”
Ezekiel 36:4
therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: The Lord Yahweh says to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which have become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are all around;
Obadiah 1:11
In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance and foreigners entered into his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them.
Obadiah 1:13
Don’t enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don’t look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity.
Obadiah 1:15
For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.
Revelation 11:10
Those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them, and they will be glad. They will give gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.
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Ezekiel 25:4
therefore, behold, I will deliver you to the children of the east for a possession. They will set their encampments in you and make their dwellings in you. They will eat your fruit and they will drink your milk.
Ezekiel 25:5
I will make Rabbah a stable for camels and the children of Ammon a resting place for flocks. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”
Ezekiel 25:8
“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because Moab and Seir say, ‘Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations,’
Ezekiel 25:15
“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because the Philistines have taken revenge, and have taken vengeance with contempt of soul to destroy with perpetual hostility,”
Ezekiel 25:16
therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I will stretch out my hand on the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
Ezekiel 25:17
I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I lay my vengeance on them.” ’ ”
Amos 1:15
and their king will go into captivity, he and his princes together,” says Yahweh.
Obadiah 1:1
The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord Yahweh says about Edom. We have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, “Arise, and let’s rise up against her in battle.
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Ezekiel 26:4
They will destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers. I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.
Ezekiel 26:5
She will be a place for the spreading of nets in the middle of the sea; for I have spoken it,’ says the Lord Yahweh. ‘She will become plunder for the nations.
Ezekiel 26:6
Her daughters who are in the field will be slain with the sword. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’
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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;
Psalms 12:5
“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”
Proverbs 22:23
for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.
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.
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 25:43
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?’
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.”
2 Corinthians 9:9
As it is written, “He has scattered abroad. He has given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever.”
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John 5:3
In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water;
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Psalms 69:9
For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
Proverbs 5:21
For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.
John 8:49
Jesus answered, “I don’t have a demon, but I honor my Father and you dishonor me.
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1 Timothy 6:7
For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out.
1 Timothy 6:8
But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.
1 Timothy 6:9
But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
Hebrews 13:5
Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”
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Job 31:21
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate;
Psalms 12:1
Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.
Proverbs 11:1
A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.
Proverbs 22:16
Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.
Isaiah 3:14
Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and their leaders: “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in your houses.
Isaiah 10:1
Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees
Matthew 18:35
So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”
Matthew 25:46
These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
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?
James 5:4
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
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1 Peter 4:17
For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?
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Jeremiah 25:28
It shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “You shall surely drink.
1 Peter 4:18
“If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?”
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1 John 3:20
because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
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.
1 John 5:3
For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
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