8/7/2023 0 Comments Bible quotes![]() ![]() Truly I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of my brethren you did it to me. I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me. But I say to you, love your enemy and pray for those who persecute you. You have heard that it was said, ‘you shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy’. Thus says the Lord of hosts: Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another. ![]() They shall be to you as citizens of Israel with you they shall be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel. You shall allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the aliens who reside among you and have begotten children among you. The Lord watches over the strangers he upholds the orphan and the widow, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.įor if you truly amend your ways and your doings, if you truly act justly one with another, if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, and the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own hurt, then I will dwell with you in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your ancestors forever and ever. I broke the fangs of the unrighteous, and made them drop their prey from their teeth. I was a father to the needy, and I championed the cause of the stranger. I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. When they were few in number, of little account, and strangers in the land, wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people, he allowed no one to oppress them he rebuked kings on their account, saying, ‘Do not touch my anointed ones do my prophets no harm.’ ‘Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow.’ Then all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’ The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. ‘I am a stranger and an alien residing among you give me property among you for a burying place, so that I may bury my dead out of my sight.’ ![]()
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