helping the helpless
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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.
4For you have been the strength of the poor, the strength of the indigent in his tribulation, a refuge from the whirlwind, a shadow from the heat. For the spirit of the mighty is like a whirlwind striking against a wall.
6Yet why did Christ, while we were still infirm, at the proper time, suffer death for the impious?
1But we who are stronger must bear with the feebleness of the weak, and not so as to please ourselves. 2Each one of you should please his neighbor unto good, for edification. 3For even Christ did not please himself, but as it was written: “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell upon me.” 4For whatever was written, was written to teach us, so that, through patience and the consolation of the Scriptures, we might have hope. 5So may the God of patience and solace grant you to be of one mind toward one another, in accord with Jesus Christ, 6so that, together with one mouth, you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
8But God demonstrates his love for us in that, while we were yet sinners, at the proper time,
9And he said to me: “My grace is sufficient for you. For virtue is perfected in weakness.” And so, willingly shall I glory in my weaknesses, so that the virtue of Christ may live within me.
17Therefore, he who knows that he ought to do a good thing, and does not do it, for him it is a sin.
14And he was casting out a demon, and the man was mute. But when he had cast out the demon, the mute man spoke, and so the crowds were amazed.
10See to it that you do not despise even one of these little ones. For I say to you, that their Angels in heaven continually look upon the face of my Father, who is in heaven.
1My little sons, this I write to you, so that you may not sin. But if anyone has sinned, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the Just One. 2And he is the propitiation for our sins. And not only for our sins, but also for those of the whole world. 3And we can be sure that we have known him by this: if we observe his commandments. 4Whoever claims that he knows him, and yet does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5But whoever keeps his word, truly in him the charity of God is perfected. And by this we know that we are in him. 6Whoever declares himself to remain in him, ought to walk just as he himself walked.