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"Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will reward them for what they have done."
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| PROVERBS 19:17 |
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"God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them."
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HEBREWS 6:10
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"You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love."
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| GALATIANS 5:13 |
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"Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ."
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| GALATIANS 6:2 |
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"And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased."
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| HEBREWS 13:16 |
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"My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends."
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| JOHN 15:12-13 |
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"Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you."
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| MATTHEW 5:42 |
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"Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality."
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| ROMANS 12:13 |
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"In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven."
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| MATTHEW 5:16 |
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"Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to act."
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| PROVERBS 3:27 |
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"Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others."
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| PHILIPPIANS 2:3-4 |
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"They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’"
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| MATTHEW 25:44-45 |
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"‘What should we do then?’ the crowd asked. John answered, ‘Anyone who has two shirts should share with the one who has none, and anyone who has food should do the same.’"
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| LUKE 3:10-11 |
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"What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,’ but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead."
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| JAMES 2:14-17 |
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"Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received; freely give."
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| MATTHEW 10:8 |
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"There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your fellow Israelites who are poor and needy in your land."
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| DEUTERONOMY 15:11 |
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"A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed."
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| PROVERBS 11:25 |
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"If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk, and if you spend yourselves on behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday."
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| ISAIAH 58:10 |
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"The generous will themselves be blessed, for they share their food with the poor."
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| PROVERBS 22:9 |
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"Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing."
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| THESSALONIANS 5:11 |
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"Jesus looked at him and loved him. ‘One thing you lack,’ he said. ‘Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.’"
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| MARK 10:21 |
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"But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you."
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| LUKE 6:27-28 |
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"Do to others as you would have them do to you."
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| LUKE 6:31 |
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"Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will never fail, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."
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| LUKE 12:33-34 |
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"In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’"
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| ACTS 20:35 |
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"Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up."
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| GALATIANS 6:9 |
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"Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow."
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| ISAIAH 1:17 |
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"We love because he first loved us. Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen."
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| JOHN 4:19-20 |
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"Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back."
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| LUKE 6:30 |
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"For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do."
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| EPHESIANS 2:10 |
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"Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves."
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| ROMANS 12:10 |
