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Genesis 4:9Yahweh said to Cain, “Where is Abel, your brother?” He said, “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”Numbers 32:6Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, “Shall your brothers go to the war, and shall you sit here?Psalm 38:11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.Proverbs 11:26People curse someone who withholds grain, but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.Proverbs 18:17He who pleads his cause first seems right; until another comes and questions him.Proverbs 24:11Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!Proverbs 24:12If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this;” doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?Proverbs 28:27One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.Micah 3:11Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us.”Haggai 1:4“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?Haggai 1:9“You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says Yahweh of Armies, “Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.Haggai 1:10Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.Zechariah 7:6When you eat, and when you drink, don’t you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?Malachi 1:10“Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “neither will I accept an offering at your hand.Matthew 19:21Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”Matthew 19:22But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.Luke 6:32If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.Luke 6:33If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.Luke 6:34If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much.Romans 14:15Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.Romans 15:1Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.Romans 15:2Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.Romans 15:3For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”1 Corinthians 10:24Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.2 Corinthians 5:15He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.Galatians 6:2Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.Philippians 2:4each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.Philippians 2:20For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you.Philippians 2:21For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.2 Timothy 3:2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,2 Timothy 3:3without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,2 Timothy 3:4traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;James 2:15And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,James 2:16and one of you tells them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled;” and yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it?1 John 3:17But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?
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