Proverbs 21:13
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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)
James 2:13-16
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13 For judgment will be without mercy to anyone who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.(A)
Faith without Works Is Dead
14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Surely that faith cannot save, can it?(B) 15 If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food(C) 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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Matthew 6:14
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14 “For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,(A)
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Proverbs 1:28
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28 Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer;
they will seek me diligently but will not find me.(A)
Matthew 7:2
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2 For the judgment you give will be the judgment you get, and the measure you give will be the measure you get.
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Isaiah 1:15-17
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15 When you stretch out your hands,
I will hide my eyes from you;
even though you make many prayers,
I will not listen;
your hands are full of blood.(A)
16 Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
remove your evil deeds
from before my eyes;
cease to do evil;(B)
17 learn to do good;
seek justice;
rescue the oppressed;
defend the orphan;
plead for the widow.(C)
Matthew 18:30-35
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30 But he refused; then he went and threw him into prison until he would pay the debt. 31 When his fellow slaves saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed, and they went and reported to their lord all that had taken place. 32 Then his lord summoned him and said to him, ‘You wicked slave! I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me. 33 Should you not have had mercy on your fellow slave, as I had mercy on you?’ 34 And in anger his lord handed him over to be tortured until he would pay his entire debt. 35 So my heavenly Father will also do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother or sister from your heart.”
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Zechariah 7:9-13
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9 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another;(A) 10 do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.(B) 11 But they refused to listen and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears in order not to hear.(C) 12 They made their hearts adamant in order not to hear the law and the words that the Lord of hosts had sent by his spirit through the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from the Lord of hosts.(D) 13 Just as, when I[a] called, they would not hear, so, when they called, I would not hear, says the Lord of hosts,(E)
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Jeremiah 34:16-17
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16 but then you turned around and profaned my name when each of you took back your male and female slaves, whom you had set free according to their desire, and you brought them again into subjection to be your slaves.(A) 17 Therefore, thus says the Lord: You have not obeyed me by granting a release to your neighbors and friends; I am going to grant a release to you, says the Lord—a release to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine. I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.(B)
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Isaiah 58:6-9
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6 Is not this the fast that I choose:
to loose the bonds of injustice,
to undo the straps of the yoke,
to let the oppressed go free,
and to break every yoke?(A)
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?(B)
8 Then your light shall break forth like the dawn,
and your healing shall spring up quickly;
your vindicator[a] shall go before you;
the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.(C)
9 Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer;
you shall cry for help, and he will say, “Here I am.”
If you remove the yoke from among you,
the pointing of the finger, the speaking of evil,(D)
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- 58.8 Or vindication
Proverbs 28:27
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27 Whoever gives to the poor will lack nothing,
but one who turns a blind eye will get many a curse.(A)
Acts 7:57
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57 But they covered their ears, and with a loud shout all rushed together against him.
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Matthew 25:41-46
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41 Then he will say to those at his left hand, ‘You who are accursed, depart from me into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels,(A) 42 for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not give me clothing, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’ 44 Then they also will answer, ‘Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and did not take care of you?’ 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.’(B) 46 And these will go away into eternal punishment but the righteous into eternal life.”(C)
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