Luke 14:12
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12 Then He also said to him who invited Him, “When you give a dinner or a supper, do not ask your friends, your brothers, your relatives, nor rich neighbors, lest they also invite you back, and you be repaid.
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James 2:1-6
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Beware of Personal Favoritism
2 My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, (A)the Lord of glory, with (B)partiality. 2 For if there should come into your assembly a man with gold rings, in [a]fine apparel, and there should also come in a poor man in [b]filthy clothes, 3 and you [c]pay attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say to him, “You sit here in a good place,” and say to the poor man, “You stand there,” or, “Sit here at my footstool,” 4 have you not [d]shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?
5 Listen, my beloved brethren: (C)Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be (D)rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom (E)which He promised to those who love Him? 6 But (F)you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you (G)and drag you into the courts?
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Matthew 5:46
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46 (A)For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
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Matthew 6:1-4
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Do Good to Please God
6 “Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven. 2 Therefore, (A)when you do a charitable deed, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory from men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. 3 But when you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 that your charitable deed may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret (B)will Himself reward you [a]openly.
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- Matthew 6:4 NU omits openly
Proverbs 22:16
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16 He who oppresses the poor to increase his riches,
And he who gives to the rich, will surely come to poverty.
Luke 6:32-36
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32 (A)“But if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. 33 And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. 34 (B)And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive back, what credit is that to you? For even sinners lend to sinners to receive as much back. 35 But (C)love your enemies, (D)do good, and (E)lend, [a]hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and (F)you will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil. 36 (G)Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.
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- Luke 6:35 expecting
Proverbs 14:20
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- Proverbs 14:20 Lit. many are the lovers of the rich
Luke 1:53
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53 He has (A)filled the hungry with good things,
And the rich He has sent away empty.
Zechariah 7:5-7
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5 “Say to all the people of the land, and to the priests: ‘When you (A)fasted and mourned in the fifth (B)and seventh months (C)during those seventy years, did you really fast (D)for Me—for Me? 6 (E)When you eat and when you drink, do you not eat and drink for yourselves? 7 Should you not have obeyed the words which the Lord proclaimed through the (F)former prophets when Jerusalem and the cities around it were inhabited and prosperous, and (G)the [a]South and the Lowland were inhabited?’ ”
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- Zechariah 7:7 Heb. Negev
Matthew 6:16-18
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Fasting to Be Seen Only by God
16 “Moreover, (A)when you fast, do not be like the [a]hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. 17 But you, when you fast, (B)anoint your head and wash your face, 18 so that you do not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you [b]openly.
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- Matthew 6:16 pretenders
- Matthew 6:18 NU, M omit openly
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