He that dishonors the needy, sins, but he that has pity on the poor is most blessed.

For I desire mercy rather than sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than whole burnt offerings.

Has it not been told you, O man, what is good? Or what does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, and love mercy, and be ready to walk with the Lord your God?

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life [as] a ransom for many."

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the more important [things] of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These things you should have done, and not have neglected the others.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet on account of you He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.

that you may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height--

and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

And walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a fragrant aroma.

But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, through the suffering of death, having been crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God, He might taste death for everyone.

For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one; for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brothers,

And again: "I will put My trust in Him." And again: "Behold I and the children to whom God has given Me."

and that He might set free these, as many as by fear of death through all of their lives, were subject to bondage.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and who washed us from our sins in His own blood,

But if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

And if you lend [to those] from whom you hope to receive [it] back, what credit is that to you? For even sinners lend to sinners, so that they may receive the same amount back.

Therefore be compassionate, just as your Father also is compassionate.

For I gave you an example, that just as I did to you, you also should do.

If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving behind an example for you, that you should follow in His footsteps,

By this we have come to know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives in behalf of our brothers.

My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.

Beloved, if in this way God loved us, indeed we ought to love one another.