Proverbs 25:20
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20 Like vinegar on a wound[a]
is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.
Like a moth in clothing or a worm in wood,
sorrow gnaws at the human heart.[b]
Romans 12:15
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15 Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.
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Ecclesiastes 3:4
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4 a time to weep and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn and a time to dance;(A)
James 2:15-16
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15 If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food(A) 16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill,” and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that?
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Isaiah 58:7
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7 Is it not to share your bread with the hungry
and bring the homeless poor into your house;
when you see the naked, to cover them
and not to hide yourself from your own kin?(A)
James 5:15
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15 The prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise them up, and anyone who has committed sins will be forgiven.
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Daniel 6:18
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18 Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting; no entertainment was brought to him, and sleep fled from him.(A)
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Proverbs 10:26
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26 Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes,
so are the lazy to their employers.(A)
Psalm 137:3-4
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3 For there our captors
asked us for songs,
and our tormentors asked for mirth, saying,
“Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”(A)
4 How could we sing the Lord’s song
in a foreign land?
Job 24:7-10
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7 They lie all night naked, without clothing,
and have no covering in the cold.(A)
8 They are wet with the rain of the mountains
and cling to the rock for want of shelter.(B)
9 “There are those who snatch the orphan child from the breast
and take as a pledge the infant of the poor.(C)
10 They go about naked, without clothing;
though hungry, they carry the sheaves;
Deuteronomy 24:12-17
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12 If the person is poor, you shall not sleep in the garment given you as[a] the pledge. 13 You shall give the pledge back by sunset, so that your neighbor may sleep in the cloak and bless you, and it will be to your credit before the Lord your God.(A)
14 “You shall not withhold the wages of poor and needy laborers, whether other Israelites or aliens who reside in your land in one of your towns.(B) 15 You shall pay them their wages daily before sunset, because they are poor and their livelihood depends on them; otherwise they might cry to the Lord against you, and you would incur guilt.(C)
16 “Parents shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their parents; only for their own crimes may persons be put to death.(D)
17 “You shall not deprive a resident alien or an orphan of justice; you shall not take a widow’s garment in pledge.(E)
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- 24.12 Heb lacks the garment given you as
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