He who despises his neighbor sins, but he who has mercy on the poor, happy is he.

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

O man, He has declared to you what is good. And what does Jehovah require of you, but to do justice, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.

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

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin, and have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: judgment and mercy and faith. It is necessary to do these, and not to leave the others undone.

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

may be able to grasp with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height;

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

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

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

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

And again: I will put My trust in Him. And again: Here am I and the children whom God has given Me.

and set free those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

and from Jesus Christ, the Faithful Witness, the Firstborn out from the dead, and the Ruler over the kings of the earth; to Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood,

For if you love those who love you, what thanks is there to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what thanks is there to you? For even sinners lend to sinners to receive as much back.

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

For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you.

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 us an example, that you should follow His steps:

By this we know the love of God, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

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 God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.