![]() ![]() Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will reward them for what they have done. (©2018 World Vision /photo by Abhishek Ashish Hans, Jim Kaso) 9. Sumit and his friend on their way to the education center run by World Vision India. Proverbs 17:17Ī friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity. Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God. Proverbs 3:27ĭo not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to act. Rescue the weak and needy deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” 6. “How long will you defend the unjust and show partiality to the wicked? Defend the cause of the weak and the fatherless maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. Psalm 41:1īlessed are those who have regard for the weak the Lord delivers them in times of trouble. ![]() (©2018 World Vision /photo by Laura Reinhardt) 4. On a Sunday afternoon, Lightwell, 10 carries his 3-year-old sister, Abigail, through fields toward a World Vision reading camp, which is part of a World Vision literacy program in Zambia. Job 6:14Īnyone who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your fellow Israelites who are poor and needy in your land. There will always be poor people in the land. If anyone is poor among your fellow Israelites in any of the towns of the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward them. Rather, be openhanded and freely lend them whatever they need. (All verses from the New International Version.) Here are 30 of our favorite verses about God’s call to love others. The call to love is often difficult, but it’s also a reminder of how God loves us: relentlessly, completely, and without expectation of return. We’re to love our neighbors, foreigners, our enemies … there’s no getting out of it. The call to love and help others in tangible ways - especially those weaker than ourselves - runs throughout the Bible. And he wants us to show that love to others. He wants us to experience incredible, life-changing love, mercy, and compassion not only from him, but from those around us. 21 And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.Note: Images taken prior to the CDC’s recommendation to wear masks in public. 20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. 18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. 17 By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 16 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 12 No one has ever seen God if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.ġ3 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. ![]() 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. ![]() 7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. ![]()
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