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

And they said to one another, We are truly guilty concerning our brother, for we saw the anguish of his soul when he pleaded with us, and we would not listen; therefore this distress has come upon us.

And Adoni-Bezek said, Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to gather scraps under my table; as I have done, so God has repaid me. Then they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.

For you have taken a pledge from your brother for no reason, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

But the man of strength possesses the land, and the honorable man dwells in it.

Therefore snares are all around you, and sudden dread terrifies you;

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.

When its branches are dried up, they shall be broken off; the women come and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding. Therefore He who made them will not have mercy on them, and He who formed them will show them no favor.

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, that you be not judged.

For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever gauge you measure, it will be measured back to you.

But that servant went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii; and he laid hands on him and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me what you owe!

And he would not, but went and threw him into prison till he should pay the debt.

Then his master, after he had called him, said to him, You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me.

And his master was angry, and delivered him to the torturers until he should pay every bit that was due to him.

Then He will also say to those on the left hand, Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire having been 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, Truly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.

But Abraham said, Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and you are tormented.

Mercy and truth have met together; righteousness and peace have kissed.

but let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am Jehovah, doing kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth; for in these things I delight, says Jehovah.

Say to them: As I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, I take no delight in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, O house of Israel?

Who is a Mighty God like You, forgiving iniquity and passing over the transgression of the remnant of His possession? His anger does not remain strong forever, for He delights in mercy.

to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He has made us accepted in the Beloved.

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

but God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,

and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus,

He who does not love does not know God, for 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 seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.

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

And we have known and believed the love that God has in us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.