Isn't it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? Cross References Matthew 25:35 For I was hungry and you gave Me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me something to drink, I was a stranger and you took Me in, Matthew 25:36 I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you looked after Me, I was in prison and you visited Me.' Luke 3:11 John replied, "Whoever has two tunics should share with him who has none, and whoever has food should do the same." Luke 10:31 Now by chance a priest was going down the same road, but when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. Luke 10:32 So too, when a Levite came to that spot and saw him, he passed by on the other side. Hebrews 13:2 Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it. Deuteronomy 22:1 If you see your brother's ox or sheep straying, you must not ignore it; be sure to return it to your brother. Job 31:19 if I have seen one perish for lack of clothing, or a needy man without a cloak, Job 31:20 if his heart has not blessed me for warming him with the fleece of my sheep, Proverbs 24:11 Rescue those being led away to death, and restrain those stumbling toward the slaughter. Isaiah 16:3 "Give us counsel; render a decision. Shelter us at noonday with shade as dark as night. Hide the refugees; do not betray the one who flees. Isaiah 16:4 Let my fugitives stay with you; be a refuge for Moab from the destroyer." When the oppressor has gone, destruction has ceased, and the oppressors have vanished from the land, Isaiah 58:10 and if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will go forth in the darkness, and your night will be like noonday. Jeremiah 22:3 This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place. Ezekiel 18:7 He does not oppress another, but restores the pledge to the debtor. He does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing. Ezekiel 18:16 He does not oppress another, or retain a pledge, or commit robbery. He gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing. Daniel 4:27 Therefore, may my advice be pleasing to you, O king. Break away from your sins by doing what is right, and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed. Perhaps there will be an extension of your prosperity." Treasury of Scripture Is it not to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor that are cast out to your house? when you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you hide not yourself from your own flesh? to deal Isaiah 58:10 Job 22:7 Job 31:18-21 bring Isaiah 16:3,4 Genesis 18:2-5 Genesis 19:2 cast out. 2 Chronicles 28:15 Job 31:19,20 Ezekiel 18:7 thine own Genesis 19:14 Judges 9:2 Nehemiah 5:5 |