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³Judge for the indigent and the orphan. Do justice to the humble and the poor. ⁴Rescue the poor, and free the needy from the hand of the sinner.

³⁷John responded to him by saying, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name; he does not follow us, and so we prohibited him.”

⁴He will judge the poor of the people, and he will bring salvation to the sons of the poor. And he will humble the false accuser.

⁵And whoever shall accept one such little child in my name, accepts me.

⁶But I say this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. And whoever sows with blessings shall also reap from blessings: ⁷each one giving, just as he has determined in his heart, neither out of sadness, nor out of obligation. For God loves a cheerful giver. ⁸And God is able to make every grace abound in you, so that, always having what you need in all things, you may abound unto every good work,

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.

¹⁷Learn to do good. Seek judgment, support the oppressed, judge for the orphan, defend the widow.

¹⁴But when Jesus saw this, he took offense, and he said to them: “Allow the little ones to come to me, and do not prohibit them. For of such as these is the kingdom of God.

²⁷I prayed for this child, and the Lord granted to me my petition, which I asked of him.

³⁴I give you a new commandment: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, so also must you love one another.

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.’

⁶The proverb is: A youth is close to his way; even when he is old, he will not withdraw from it.

²⁰She has opened her hand to the needy, and she has extended her hands to the poor.

³⁵You do see, for you examine hardship and sorrow, so that you may deliver them into your hands. The poor one has been abandoned to you. You will be a helper to the orphan.

⁹Knowing this, that the law was not set in place for the just, but for the unjust and the insubordinate, for the impious and sinners, for the wicked and the defiled, for those who commit patricide, matricide, or homicide, ¹⁰for fornicators, for males who sleep with males, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, ¹¹which is in accord with the Gospel of the glory of the blessed God, the Gospel which has been entrusted to me.

¹³He will spare the poor and the indigent, and he will bring salvation to the souls of the poor. ¹⁴He will redeem their souls from usuries and from iniquity, and their names shall be honorable in his sight.

¹¹I am the good Shepherd. The good Shepherd gives his life for his sheep. ¹²But the hired hand, and whoever is not a shepherd, to whom the sheep do not belong, he sees the wolf approaching, and he departs from the sheep and flees. And the wolf ravages and scatters the sheep. ¹³And the hired hand flees, because he is a hired hand and there is no concern for the sheep within him. ¹⁴I am the good Shepherd, and I know my own, and my own know me, ¹⁵just as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for my sheep.

⁸Open your mouth for the mute and for all the cases of the sons who are passing through. ⁹Open your mouth, declare what is just, and do justice to the indigent and the poor.

³³If a newcomer lives in your land and abides among you, do not reproach him,

⁴¹And he helped the poor out of destitution, and he stationed families like sheep.

¹⁸(for from my infancy mercy grew with me, and it came out with me from my mother’s womb;)

¹⁶He judged the case of the poor and the indigent for their good. Was this not because he knew me, says the Lord?