Indeed, the wages of the laborers who reaped your fields, which were kept back by you, cry out, and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

And each said to his brother, Yes, indeed, for we are in fault concerning our brother, when we disregarded the anguish of his soul, when he pleaded with us, and we would not hear him; therefore has this affliction come upon us.

And Adoni-Bezek said, Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their big toes cut off, gathered their food under my table: as I therefore have done, so God has recompensed me: and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

And you have taken [the] security of your brethren for nothing, and have taken away the clothing of the naked.

And you have accepted the persons of some; and you have established those [that were already settled] on the earth.

Therefore snares have surrounded you, and disastrous war has troubled you.

He that stops his ears from hearing the poor, himself also shall cry, and there shall be none to hear [him].

And after a time there shall be in it no green thing because of [the grass] being parched. Come here, you woman that comes from a sight; for it is a people of no understanding; therefore He that made them shall have no pity upon them, and He that formed them shall have no mercy [upon them].

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

"Judge not, lest you be judged.

For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with what measure you measure, it will be measured [back] to you.

But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. And taking hold of him, he was choking him, saying, 'Pay me what you owe!'

"But he was not willing, but going off, he cast him into prison till he should pay back what was owed.

Then summoning him, his master said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me.

"And being angered, his master handed him over to the tormentors until he should pay all that was owed to him.

"Then He will also say to those on the left, 'Depart from Me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels:

I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.'

"Then He will answer them, saying, 'Assuredly I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, neither did you do it to Me.'

But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things, but now here he is comforted and you are suffering.

Mercy and truth have met together; righteousness and peace have kissed [each other].

but let him that boasts boast in this: the understanding and knowing that I am the Lord that exercises mercy, and judgment, and righteousness upon the earth; for in these things is My pleasure, says the Lord.

Say to them, Thus says the Lord: [As] I live, I desire not the death of the ungodly, as that the ungodly should turn from his way and live: turn heartily from your way; for why will you die, O house of Israel?

Who is a God like You, canceling iniquities, and passing over the sins of the remnant of His inheritance? And He has not kept His anger for a testimony, for He delights in mercy.

to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He bestowed favor upon us in the Beloved.

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace

But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,

and raised us up together, and seated us together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus,

He that does not love does not know God, because God is love.

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.

No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world.

And we have come to know and believe the love which God has in us. God is love, and he that abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.