help others
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13And you, brothers, do not grow weak in doing good.
38Give, and it will be given to you: a good measure, pressed down and shaken together and overflowing, they will place upon your lap. Certainly, the same measure that you use to measure out, will be used to measure back to you again.”
2Carry one another’s burdens, and so shall you fulfill the law of Christ.
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.
8So if you perfect the regal law, according to the Scriptures, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” then you do well.
33Sell what you possess, and give alms. Make for yourselves purses that will not wear out, a treasure that will not fall short, in heaven, where no thief approaches, and no moth corrupts. 34For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
17Whoever is merciful to the poor lends to the Lord. And he will repay him for his efforts.
13No one has a greater love than this: that he lay down his life for his friends.
15If you love me, keep my commandments.
19Do not choose to store up for yourselves treasures on earth: where rust and moth consume, and where thieves break in and steal. 20Instead, store up for yourselves treasures in heaven: where neither rust nor moth consumes, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21For where your treasure is, there also is your heart.
3not so as to dominate by means of the clerical state, but so as to be formed into a flock from the heart.
9Whoever is inclined to mercy shall be blessed, for from his bread he has given to the poor. Whoever gives gifts will acquire victory and honor. But he carries away the soul of the receiver.
31Whoever slanders the indigent argues against his Maker. But he who has compassion on the poor honors his Maker.
17Instruct the wealthy of this age not to have a superior attitude, nor to hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who offers us everything in abundance to enjoy, 18and to do good, to become rich in good works, to donate readily, to share, 19to gather for themselves the treasure of a good foundation for the future, so that they may obtain true life.
42Whoever asks of you, give to him. And if anyone would borrow from you, do not turn away from him.