The righteous know the needs of their animals, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.
1 John 3:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 How does God’s love abide in anyone who has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help? More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But if anyone has this world's goods (resources for sustaining life) and sees his brother and fellow believer in need, yet closes his heart of compassion against him, how can the love of God live and remain in him? American Standard Version (1901) But whoso hath the world’s goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him? Common English Bible But if someone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but refuses to help—how can the love of God dwell in a person like that? Catholic Public Domain Version Whoever possesses the goods of this world, and sees his brother to be in need, and yet closes his heart to him: in what way does the love of God abide in him? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He that hath the substance of this world, and shall see his brother in need, and shall shut up his bowels from him: how doth the charity of God abide in him? |
The righteous know the needs of their animals, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.
Those who oppress the poor insult their Maker, but those who are kind to the needy honor him.
Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord and will be repaid in full.
If you close your ear to the cry of the poor, you will cry out and not be heard.
When one will not listen to the law, even one’s prayers are an abomination.
In reply he said to them, “Whoever has two coats must share with anyone who has none, and whoever has food must do likewise.”
For you know the generous act of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich.
Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.
and one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill,” and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that?
Those who say, “I love God,” and hate a brother or sister are liars, for those who do not love a brother or sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the parent loves the child.