Luke 10:37
He said, “He who showed mercy on him.” Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”
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Luke 10:37
He said, “He who showed mercy on him.” Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”
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Exodus 22:21
“You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
Leviticus 19:33
“ ‘If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.
Deuteronomy 10:19
Therefore love the foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
Luke 9:53
They didn’t receive him, because he was traveling with his face set toward Jerusalem.
Luke 17:18
Were there none found who returned to give glory to God, except this foreigner?”
John 8:48
Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”
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Exodus 23:4
“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.
Exodus 23:5
If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him. You shall surely help him with it.
Deuteronomy 22:4
You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them. You shall surely help him to lift them up again.
1 Samuel 24:17
He said to David, “You are more righteous than I; for you have done good to me, whereas I have done evil to you.
1 Samuel 24:18
You have declared today how you have dealt well with me, because when Yahweh had delivered me up into your hand, you didn’t kill me.
Psalms 7:4
if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),
Proverbs 25:22
for you will heap coals of fire on his head, and Yahweh will reward you.
Luke 6:27
“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
Luke 6:28
bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.
Luke 23:34
Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.
Romans 12:20
Therefore “If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head.”
Romans 12:21
Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
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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.
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.
1 Samuel 30:11
They found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he ate; and they gave him water to drink.
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Deuteronomy 23:7
You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.
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 25:36
I was naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison and you came to me.’
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.
John 14:15
If you love me, keep my commandments.
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.
Romans 13:8
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
Ephesians 4:31
Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.
Colossians 3:14
Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
1 Timothy 1:5
But the goal of this command is love from a pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith,
Hebrews 13:2
Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.
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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Joshua 6:17
The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is in it, to Yahweh. Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
Joshua 6:26
Joshua commanded them with an oath at that time, saying, “Cursed is the man before Yahweh who rises up and builds this city Jericho. With the loss of his firstborn he will lay its foundation, and with the loss of his youngest son he will set up its gates.”
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Proverbs 17:17
A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 18:24
A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Proverbs 27:10
Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster. A neighbor who is near is better than a distant brother.
Acts 23:12
When it was day, some of the Jews banded together and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.
Acts 23:23
He called to himself two of the centurions, and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen and two hundred men armed with spears, at the third hour of the night.”
Acts 23:24
He asked them to provide mounts, that they might set Paul on one, and bring him safely to Felix the governor.
Acts 23:25
He wrote a letter like this:
Acts 23:26
“Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor Felix: Greetings.
Acts 23:27
“This man was seized by the Jews, and was about to be killed by them when I came with the soldiers and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman.
Acts 23:28
Desiring to know the cause why they accused him, I brought him down to their council.
Acts 23:29
I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but not to be charged with anything worthy of death or of imprisonment.
Acts 23:30
When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring their accusations against him before you. Farewell.”
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Isaiah 61:1
The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,
Ezekiel 34:4
You haven’t strengthened the diseased. You haven’t healed that which was sick. You haven’t bound up that which was broken. You haven’t brought back that which was driven away. You haven’t sought that which was lost, but you have ruled over them with force and with rigor.
Romans 15:1
Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
Romans 15:2
Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.
2 Corinthians 12:15
I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
Galatians 6:1
Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.
1 Thessalonians 5:14
We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.
Hebrews 12:12
Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
Hebrews 12:13
and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
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Hosea 3:1
Yahweh said to me, “Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.”
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Deuteronomy 10:12
Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
1 Samuel 15:22
Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
Job 19:18
Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.
Hosea 6:6
For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Micah 6:8
He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
Zechariah 7:9
“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.
Matthew 9:13
But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
Matthew 21:28
But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’
Matthew 22:40
The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”
Matthew 23:23
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.
Matthew 28:7
Go quickly and tell his disciples, ‘He has risen from the dead, and behold, he goes before you into Galilee; there you will see him.’ Behold, I have told you.”
Mark 12:34
When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from God’s Kingdom.” No one dared ask him any question after that.
Luke 10:26
He said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?”
Luke 15:30
But when this your son came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’
John 8:11
She said, “No one, Lord.” Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more.”
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Matthew 7:21
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 7:24
“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on a rock.
Matthew 7:25
The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock.
Matthew 7:26
Everyone who hears these words of mine and doesn’t do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
Matthew 7:27
The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell—and its fall was great.”
John 13:17
If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
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Matthew 9:36
But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.
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Matthew 19:19
‘Honor your father and your mother.’ And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ”
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Matthew 21:40
When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?”
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Matthew 21:41
They told him, “He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers who will give him the fruit in its season.”
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Mark 4:35
On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let’s go over to the other side.”
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Mark 5:35
While he was still speaking, people came from the synagogue ruler’s house, saying, “Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher any more?”
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Luke 10:23
Turning to the disciples, he said privately, “Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see,
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Luke 10:24
for I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them, and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.”
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Matthew 22:35
One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.
Luke 7:30
But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.
Luke 11:45
One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying this you insult us also.”
Luke 11:46
He said, “Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won’t even lift one finger to help carry those burdens.
Luke 11:52
Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”
Luke 14:3
Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”
Titus 3:13
Send Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey speedily, that nothing may be lacking for them.
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Luke 7:42
When they couldn’t pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?”
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 13:34
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.
Acts 27:3
The next day, we touched at Sidon. Julius treated Paul kindly and gave him permission to go to his friends and refresh himself.
1 Corinthians 14:1
Follow after love and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
1 Thessalonians 4:9
But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
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John 16:16
“A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.”
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Acts 23:31
So the soldiers, carrying out their orders, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.
Acts 23:32
But on the next day they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the barracks.
Acts 23:33
When they came to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him.
Acts 23:34
When the governor had read it, he asked what province he was from. When he understood that he was from Cilicia, he said,
Acts 23:35
“I will hear you fully when your accusers also arrive.” He commanded that he be kept in Herod’s palace.
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Romans 2:14
(for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,
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Romans 2:15
in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)
Romans 2:27
Won’t those who are physically uncircumcised, but fulfill the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?
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Ephesians 3:18
may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth,
Ephesians 3:19
and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
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Matthew 18:32
Then his lord called him in and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me.
Matthew 18:33
Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?’
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.”
Luke 6:32
“If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.
Luke 6:33
If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.
John 13:15
For I have given you an example, that you should also do as I have done to you.
John 15:13
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Ephesians 4:32
And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
Ephesians 5:1
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
Colossians 3:12
Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
1 Peter 2:21
For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,
Revelation 1:5
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—
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2 Kings 6:23
He prepared a great feast for them. After they ate and drank, he sent them away and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria stopped raiding the land of Israel.
2 Chronicles 28:15
The men who have been mentioned by name rose up and took the captives, and with the plunder clothed all who were naked among them, dressed them, gave them sandals, gave them something to eat and to drink, anointed them, carried all the feeble of them on donkeys, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria.
Job 30:25
Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?
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.
Luke 22:51
But Jesus answered, “Let me at least do this”—and he touched his ear and healed him.
Acts 16:28
But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, “Don’t harm yourself, for we are all here!”
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.
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Hebrews 2:9
But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.
Hebrews 2:10
For it became him, for whom are all things and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
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.
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Matthew 5:16
Even so, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
John 5:36
But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John; for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.
James 2:18
Yes, a man will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
1 Peter 2:12
having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good works and glorify God in the day of visitation.
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Proverbs 14:21
He who despises his neighbor sins, but he who has pity on the poor is blessed.
Ecclesiastes 11:1
Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.
Matthew 5:47
If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?
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.’
Luke 6:34
If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much.
Luke 6:36
“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.
John 15:12
“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
Acts 28:2
The natives showed us uncommon kindness; for they kindled a fire and received us all, because of the present rain and because of the cold.
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.
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 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.
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