James 2:14

James 2:14
What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?

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Genesis 15:5
Yahweh brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” He said to Abram, “So your offspring will be.”

Genesis 15:6
He believed in Yahweh, who credited it to him for righteousness.

Genesis 22:18
All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.’ ”

Romans 1:5
through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for his name’s sake;

Romans 6:17
But thanks be to God that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.

Romans 10:16
But they didn’t all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”

2 Corinthians 10:5
throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

Hebrews 5:9
Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,

Hebrews 11:8
By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.

Hebrews 11:33
who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

1 Peter 3:1
In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word,

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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Genesis 37:26
Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

Genesis 37:27
Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh.” His brothers listened to him.

Genesis 37:28
Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The merchants brought Joseph into Egypt.

Judges 1:7
Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their big toes cut off, scavenged under my table. As I have done, so God has done to me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

Joel 3:6
and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, that you may remove them far from their border.

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Deuteronomy 5:28
Yahweh heard the voice of your words when you spoke to me; and Yahweh said to me, “I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. They have well said all that they have spoken.

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Deuteronomy 5:29
Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!

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Deuteronomy 6:4
Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one.

Matthew 7:12
Therefore, whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

Matthew 22:39
A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

Romans 12:9
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

1 Corinthians 8:1
Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

2 Corinthians 6:6
in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,

Galatians 6:2
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Ephesians 4:15
but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,

1 Timothy 1:5
But the goal of this command is love from a pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith,

James 2:10
For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

James 3:17
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

1 John 2:9
He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness even until now.

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Deuteronomy 6:25
It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all these commandments before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.”

Deuteronomy 24:13
You shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment and bless you. It shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.

Psalms 106:30
Then Phinehas stood up and executed judgment, so the plague was stopped.

Psalms 106:31
That was credited to him for righteousness, for all generations to come.

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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.

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 11:24
There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.

Proverbs 11:25
The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

Proverbs 19:17
He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

Ecclesiastes 11:1
Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.

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?

Isaiah 58:9
Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;

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.”

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1 Samuel 11:2
Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “On this condition I will make it with you, that all your right eyes be gouged out. I will make this dishonor all Israel.”

Proverbs 12:10
A righteous man respects the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

John 19:31
Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn’t remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away.

John 19:32
Therefore the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who was crucified with him;

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Psalms 38:11
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.

Psalms 69:20
Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.

Psalms 142:4
Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

Luke 10:31
By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

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Psalms 78:36
But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.

Psalms 78:37
For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.

Psalms 106:12
Then they believed his words. They sang his praise.

Psalms 106:13
They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,

Luke 8:13
Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root. They believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.

John 8:31
Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.

John 8:32
You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

1 Corinthians 15:14
If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith also is in vain.

Galatians 3:4
Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?

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Job 6:14
“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

Job 6:15
My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away;

Job 6:16
which are black by reason of the ice, in which the snow hides itself.

Job 6:17
In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

Job 6:18
The caravans that travel beside them turn away. They go up into the waste, and perish.

Job 6:19
The caravans of Tema looked. The companies of Sheba waited for them.

Job 6:20
They were distressed because they were confident. They came there, and were confounded.

Job 6:21
For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.

Psalms 38:10
My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.

Proverbs 21:13
Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

Proverbs 24:11
Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!

Proverbs 24:12
If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this,” doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?

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Ecclesiastes 11:2
Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight; for you don’t know what evil will be on the earth.

Isaiah 58:12
Those who will be of you will build the old waste places. You will raise up the foundations of many generations. You will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of Paths with Dwellings.

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 26:11
For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.

John 12:7
But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial.

John 12:8
For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.”

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Isaiah 57:12
I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you.

Revelation 3:17
Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing,’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

Revelation 3:18
I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.

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Isaiah 58:10
and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday;

Isaiah 58:11
and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.

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 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.’

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.’

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.”

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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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.

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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.”

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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.”

2 Peter 3:16
as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

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Matthew 9:22
But Jesus, turning around and seeing her, said, “Daughter, cheer up! Your faith has made you well.” And the woman was made well from that hour.

Mark 5:34
He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be cured of your disease.”

Mark 10:52
Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your faith has made you well.” Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus on the way.

Luke 7:50
He said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.”

Luke 8:42
for he had an only born daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. But as he went, the multitudes pressed against him.

Luke 8:48
He said to her, “Daughter, cheer up. Your faith has made you well. Go in peace.”

Luke 18:42
Jesus said to him, “Receive your sight. Your faith has healed you.”

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Matthew 12:36
I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

Matthew 12:37
For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

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Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

Matthew 16:25
For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.

Matthew 16:26
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

Mark 3:4
He said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to do good or to do harm? To save a life or to kill?” But they were silent.

Mark 8:34
He called the multitude to himself with his disciples and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Mark 8:35
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.

Mark 8:36
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?

Mark 8:37
For what will a man give in exchange for his life?

Luke 9:23
He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

Luke 9:24
For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake will save it.

Luke 9:25
For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?

1 Peter 1:9
receiving the result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

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Luke 6:31
“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

1 Corinthians 8:2
But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to know.

1 Corinthians 13:4
Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

1 Corinthians 13:8
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

1 Corinthians 13:13
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 14:6
But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with other languages, what would I profit you unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching?

Galatians 5:13
For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom an an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

Galatians 5:14
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

2 Timothy 2:14
Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord that they don’t argue about words to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

Titus 1:14
not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

James 2:8
However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

James 2:9
But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

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Luke 8:18
Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has.”

Galatians 2:16
yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

Hebrews 11:6
Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

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John 8:41
You do the works of your father.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.”

John 8:42
Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.

John 8:54
Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.

John 8:55
You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I would be like you, a liar. But I know him and keep his word.

John 15:24
If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father.

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Acts 3:2
A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.

Acts 3:3
Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive gifts for the needy.

Acts 3:4
Peter, fastening his eyes on him, with John, said, “Look at us.”

Acts 3:5
He listened to them, expecting to receive something from them.

Acts 3:6
But Peter said, “I have no silver or gold, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”

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Matthew 10:1
He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness.

Acts 16:16
As we were going to prayer, a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling.

Acts 16:17
Following Paul and us, she cried out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of salvation!”

Acts 16:18
She was doing this for many days. But Paul, becoming greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” It came out that very hour.

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Romans 3:1
Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?

Romans 3:31
Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.

Romans 6:1
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

Romans 6:2
May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

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Genesis 26:5
because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

Psalms 15:2
He who walks blamelessly and does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart;

Psalms 119:80
Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees, that I may not be disappointed.

Psalms 119:112
I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever, even to the end.

Ezekiel 18:9
has walked in my statutes, and has kept my ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 18:21
“But if the wicked turns from all his sins that he has committed, and keeps all my statutes, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live. He shall not die.

Ezekiel 36:27
I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.

Habakkuk 2:4
Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

Luke 1:6
They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

Romans 11:6
And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

Romans 14:23
But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.

Hebrews 4:2
For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with faith by those who heard.

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Matthew 19:21
Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

Luke 5:29
Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.

Luke 19:6
He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully.

Acts 16:34
He brought them up into his house and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly with all his household, having believed in God.

1 Corinthians 9:27
but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.

2 Corinthians 9:1
It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints,

Philippians 1:11
being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Titus 3:8
This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you insist confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;

Philemon 1:5
hearing of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints,

James 5:20
let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

1 Peter 4:10
As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

2 Peter 1:8
For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Joshua 24:14
“Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve Yahweh.

Luke 18:22
When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have and distribute it to the poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”

Acts 11:29
As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;

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.

2 Corinthians 8:14
but for equality. Your abundance at this present time supplies their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply for your lack, that there may be equality.

2 Corinthians 8:15
As it is written, “He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack.”

Philippians 1:10
so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

Philippians 4:17
Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

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 6:18
that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to share;

Titus 2:14
who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

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.

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Mark 10:21
Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.”

Acts 2:45
They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need.

Acts 11:28
One of them named Agabus stood up and indicated by the Spirit that there should be a great famine all over the world, which also happened in the days of Claudius.

Romans 12:13
contributing to the needs of the saints, and given to hospitality.

2 Corinthians 6:1
Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain.

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 8:24
Therefore show the proof of your love to them before the assemblies, and of our boasting on your behalf.

Ephesians 6:24
Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen.

Philippians 4:19
My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

1 Thessalonians 1:3
remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

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.

1 John 5:16
If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is sin leading to death. I don’t say that he should make a request concerning this.

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Luke 13:7
He said to the vine dresser, ‘Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down! Why does it waste the soil?’

Philippians 1:9
This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

Philippians 2:25
But I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need,

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,

1 Thessalonians 4:10
for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;

Titus 3:14
Let our people also learn to maintain good works to meet necessary needs, that they may not be unfruitful.

Philemon 1:4
I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers,

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James 1:18
Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

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Isaiah 58:2
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments. They delight to draw near to God.

Isaiah 58:3
‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress all your laborers.

Jeremiah 44:16
“As for the word that you have spoken to us in Yahweh’s name, we will not listen to you.

Ezekiel 33:32
Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they don’t do them.

Matthew 15:8
‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

Luke 6:46
“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?

John 6:63
It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

Romans 2:3
Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

Romans 2:13
For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

Romans 2:23
You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law?

2 Timothy 3:5
holding a form of godliness but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

James 1:24
for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.

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Job 31:13
“If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me,

Job 31:14
what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him?

Job 31:15
Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?

Job 35:5
Look to the skies, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.

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 14:21
He who despises his neighbor sins, but he who has pity on the poor is blessed.

Proverbs 17:5
Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

Proverbs 18:3
When wickedness comes, contempt also comes, and with shame comes disgrace.

Luke 18:9
He also spoke this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others:

James 2:6
But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and personally drag you before the courts?

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James 3:16
For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

James 4:2
You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

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James 1:4
Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

James 1:10
and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

James 1:13
Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.

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”

James 3:2
For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

James 4:13
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”

James 5:2
Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.

James 5:3
Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.

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.

James 5:5
You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

James 5:6
You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.

James 5:8
You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

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