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Abrahamic Traditions
King James Version (KJV)Job 29:16
I [was] a father to the poor: and the cause [which] I knew not I searched out.
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King James Version (KJV)Luke 15:20
And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
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King James Version (KJV)Matthew 25:45
Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did [it] not to one of the least of these, ye did [it] not to me.
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King James Version (KJV)Obadiah 1:12
But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.
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King James Version (KJV)Philippians 1:9
And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and [in] all judgment;
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King James Version (KJV)Proverbs 21:21
He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour.
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King James Version (KJV)Proverbs 24:11
If thou forbear to deliver [them that are] drawn unto death, and [those that are] ready to be slain;
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King James Version (KJV)Psalm 145:8
The LORD [is] gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.
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King James Version (KJV)Psalm 37:26
[He is] ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed [is] blessed.
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King James Version (KJV)Psalm 78:38
But he, [being] full of compassion, forgave [their] iniquity, and destroyed [them] not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
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King James Version (KJV)2 Corinthians 1:4
Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
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King James Version (KJV)2 Corinthians 2:8
Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm [your] love toward him.
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King James Version (KJV)2 Samuel 1:26
I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
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King James Version (KJV)2 Thessalonians 3:15
Yet count [him] not as an enemy, but admonish [him] as a brother.
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King James Version (KJV)3 John 1:6
Which have borne witness of thy charity before the church: whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt do well:
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King James Version (KJV)Deuteronomy 22:1
Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother.
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King James Version (KJV)Ezekiel 16:49
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
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King James Version (KJV)Ezekiel 18:23
Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: [and] not that he should return from his ways, and live?
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King James Version (KJV)Hebrews 6:10
For God [is] not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
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King James Version (KJV)Luke 10:33
But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion [on him],
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King James Version (KJV)Matthew 7:12
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
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King James Version (KJV)Proverbs 31:9
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
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King James Version (KJV)Titus 2:4
That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
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King James Version (KJV)1 Samuel 18:3
Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
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