caring for others

⁴Let each of you not consider anything to be your own, but rather to belong to others.

³²And be kind and merciful to one another, forgiving one another, just as God has forgiven you in Christ.

³⁴I give you a new commandment: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, so also must you love one another. ³⁵By this, all shall recognize that you are my disciples: if you will have love for one another.”

¹⁷Whoever 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? ¹⁸My little sons, let us not love in words only, but in works and in truth.

⁸But if anyone has no concern for his own, and especially for those of his own household, he has denied the faith, and he is worse than an unbeliever.

¹³Whoever blocks his ears to the outcry of the poor shall also cry out himself, and he will not be heeded.

⁹And so, let us not be deficient in doing good. For in due time, we shall reap without fail. ¹⁰Therefore, while we have time, we should do good works toward everyone, and most of all toward those who are of the household of the faith.

⁴⁰And in response, the King shall say to them, ‘Amen I say to you, whenever you did this for one of these, the least of my brothers, you did it for me.’

²Carry one another’s burdens, and so shall you fulfill the law of Christ.

¹¹Because of this, console one another and build up one another, just as you are doing.

¹⁷Whoever is merciful to the poor lends to the Lord. And he will repay him for his efforts.

²⁷This is religion, clean and undefiled before God the Father: to visit orphans and widows in their tribulations, and to keep yourself immaculate, apart from this age.