Helping

For I was hungry and you gave Me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me something to drink, I was a stranger and you took Me in,

I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you looked after Me, I was in prison and you visited Me.’

If you see your brother’s donkey or ox fallen on the road, you must not ignore it; you must help him lift it up.

Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.

Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

A generous man will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.

Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

In everything, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus Himself: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.

Kindness to the poor is a loan to the LORD, and He will repay the lender.

For there will never cease to be poor in the land; that is why I am commanding you to open wide your hand to your brother and to the poor and needy in your land.