Luke 6:32
“If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.
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Luke 6:32
“If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.
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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.”
Esther 9:19
Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, a holiday, and a day of sending presents of food to one another.
Esther 9:22
as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending presents of food to one another, and gifts to the needy.
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Psalms 16:3
As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.
Proverbs 12:13
An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.
Proverbs 12:26
A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
Proverbs 17:27
He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.
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Proverbs 21:21
He who follows after righteousness and kindness finds life, righteousness, and honor.
Micah 6:6
How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?
Luke 14:26
“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.
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Psalms 37:26
All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His offspring is blessed.
Proverbs 21:26
There are those who covet greedily all day long; but the righteous give and don’t withhold.
Ecclesiastes 11:2
Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight; for you don’t know what evil will be on the earth.
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.’”
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,
2 Corinthians 9:11
you being enriched in everything for all generosity, which produces thanksgiving to God through us.
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.
Galatians 6:9
Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season if we don’t give up.
1 Timothy 6:18
that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to share;
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.
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Zechariah 7:5
“Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?
Zechariah 7:6
When you eat and when you drink, don’t you eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?
Zechariah 7:7
Aren’t these the words which Yahweh proclaimed by the former prophets when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?’ ”
Matthew 6:2
Therefore, when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.
Matthew 6:3
But when you do merciful deeds, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand does,
Matthew 6:4
so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
Matthew 6:16
“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.
Matthew 6:17
But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,
Matthew 6:18
so that you are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.
Luke 14:12
He also said to the one who had invited him, “When you make a dinner or a supper, don’t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.
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Matthew 5:5
Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.
Matthew 5:7
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
Matthew 5:17
“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.
Matthew 5:44
But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,
Matthew 5:45
that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.
Matthew 5:48
Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
Romans 12:14
Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse.
1 Thessalonians 5:15
See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all.
1 Peter 2:18
Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.
1 Peter 2:22
who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”
1 Peter 2:23
When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.
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Matthew 8:9
For I am also a man under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and tell another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and tell my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”
Matthew 26:73
After a little while those who stood by came and said to Peter, “Surely you are also one of them, for your speech makes you known.”
Mark 10:45
For the Son of Man also came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
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Matthew 10:12
As you enter into the household, greet it.
Luke 10:4
Carry no purse, nor wallet, nor sandals. Greet no one on the way.
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Mark 6:30
The apostles gathered themselves together to Jesus, and they told him all things, whatever they had done, and whatever they had taught.
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Luke 10:5
Into whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house.’
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Luke 16:28
for I have five brothers—that he may testify to them, so they won’t also come into this place of torment.’
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Luke 24:7
saying that the Son of Man must be delivered up into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and the third day rise again?”
Galatians 2:15
“We, being Jews by nature and not Gentile sinners,
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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Luke 6:49
But he who hears and doesn’t do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.”
Luke 18:13
But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’
John 13:15
For I have given you an example, that you should also do as I have done to you.
John 13:16
Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither is one who is sent greater than he who sent him.
John 13:17
If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
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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 4:4
You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.
1 John 4:5
They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.
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Luke 2:32
a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel.”
Luke 4:22
All testified about him and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth; and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”
Luke 17:9
Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded? I think not.
1 Corinthians 10:30
If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced for something I give thanks for?
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Luke 2:40
The child was growing, and was becoming strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.
Luke 10:37
He said, “He who showed mercy on him.” Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”
John 13:34
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.
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.
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.
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 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 3:23
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 3:24
He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.
1 John 4:10
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
1 John 4:11
Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
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