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45 Then he will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’(A)

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13 If you close your ear to the cry of the poor,
    you will cry out and not be heard.(A)

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40 And the king will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did it to me.’(A)

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He asked, “Who are you, Lord?” The reply came, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

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Those who mock the poor insult their Maker;
    those who are glad at calamity will not go unpunished.(A)

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31 Those who oppress the poor insult their Maker,
    but those who are kind to the needy honor him.(A)

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12 We must not be like Cain, who was from the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous. 13 Do not be astonished, brothers and sisters, that the world hates you.(A) 14 We know that we have passed from death to life because we love the brothers and sisters. Whoever does not love abides in death.(B) 15 All who hate a brother or sister are murderers, and you know that murderers do not have eternal life abiding in them.(C) 16 We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us—and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers and sisters.(D) 17 How does God’s love abide in anyone who has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help?(E)

18 Little children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth.(F) 19 And by this we will know that we are from the truth and will reassure our hearts before him(G) 20 whenever our hearts condemn us, for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.

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Faith Conquers the World

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ[a] has been born of God, and everyone who loves the parent loves the child.(A) By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. For the love of God is this, that we obey his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome,(B)

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  1. 5.1 Or the Messiah

The World’s Hatred

18 “If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you.(A) 19 If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

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15 saying, “Do not touch my anointed ones;
    do my prophets no harm.”

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For thus said the Lord of hosts after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you: Truly, one who touches you touches the apple of my eye.[a](A)

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  1. 2.8 Heb his eye

He crouched; he lay down like a lion
    and like a lioness; who will rouse him up?
Blessed is everyone who blesses you,
    and cursed is everyone who curses you.”(A)

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I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”[a](A)

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  1. 12.3 Or by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves