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See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone.
1 Thessalonians 5:15, ESV
We do not get even. We do not seek harm on others.
We love EVERYONE with God’s love and let Him handle it when we are wronged.
But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Amos 5:24, ESV
Do not let circumstances push you from God. Rather, let God work in and through you in your circumstances for justice and His glory.
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
James 5:16, ESV
Sometimes we need to see or hear someone responding to our confession.
Sometimes we need to know we are being held accountable.
All the time we need to obey God’s commands.
Then we heal.
Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.
Hebrews 13:16, ESV
Especially in times of fear and doubt, we need to be sharing our goods with each other as needed. It shows our faith in God and His goodness.
If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.
John 13:14, ESV
Love your neighbor, especially your brothers and sisters in Christ, by serving them, as Christ has done.
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Philippians 2:3 ESV
Just as Christ did not rely on His divinity while on earth, but denied Himself to the point of dying to redeem us, we should love others enough to take care of their needs before our own.
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
1 John 3:18, ESV
Some may say “share the Gospel, and if necessary use words.”
That is not the point here. Rather, it is better said “put your money where your mouth is.”
Do not merely teach it: Do it.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 2:10, ESV
Just as God created a good world and loves His Creation, we were created to love this world and draw it back to Him out of the sin and rebellion we brought in, to be like the Son through His power.
Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
Isaiah 43:19, ESV
In Christ, we all have access to the Father through the Holy Spirit, who flows through us into the wilderness of this fallen, sinful world with Christ’s refreshing righteousness.
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Galatians 5:14, ESV
Loving others includes helping in times of need; sacrificing time, money, energy, and comfort; leading from sin to repentance and Christ; and merely being present and attentive.
a simple man of God 