For the poor shall never cease out of the land; therefore, I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor and to thy needy, in thy land.
And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?
He answered and said unto them, He that has two coats, let him impart to him that has none; and he that has food, let him do likewise.
give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down and shaken together and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye measure out it shall be measured to you again.
Sell what ye have and give alms; {lit. do acts of mercy} provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that fails not, where no thief approaches neither moth corrupts.
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in the heavens.
Give to him that asks of thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
Bear ye one another’s burdens and so fulfil the law of the Christ.
This is my commandment, That ye love one another as I have loved you.
Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his soul for his friends.
Let him that stole steal no more, but rather let him labour, working with his hands that which is good, that he may have to give to him that is in need.
¶ My brethren, What shall it profit though someone says that they have faith and do not have works? Shall this type of faith be able to save them?
If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food,
and one of you says unto them, Depart in peace; be ye warmed and filled; but ye do not give them those things which are needful for the body; what shall it profit them?
Even so faith, if it does not have works, is dead in and of itself.
¶ We then that are stronger ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not please ourselves.
with each one not looking to their own things, but also to the things of others.
But whosoever has this world’s goods and sees his brother have need and shuts up his bowels of compassion from him, how does the charity of God abide in him?
¶ He that gives unto the poor lends unto the Lord, and he will give him his reward.
I have showed you in all things how that so labouring, ye ought to support the weak and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
¶ And when he had thus spoken, he knelt down and prayed with them all.
Then they all wept sore and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him,
sorrowing most of all for the word which he spoke, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him unto the ship.
for I was hungry, and ye gave me food; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in;
naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see thee hungry and feed thee? or thirsty and give thee drink?
When did we see thee a stranger and take thee in? or naked and clothe thee?
Or when did we see thee sick or in prison and come unto thee?
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brothers, ye have done it unto me.