Thematic Bible: Care for
Thematic Bible
Fruit trees » Care for
"When you besiege a city a long time, to make war against it in order to capture it, you shall not destroy its trees by swinging an axe against them; for you may eat from them, and you shall not cut them down. For is the tree of the field a man, that it should be besieged by you? "Only the trees which you know are not fruit trees you shall destroy and cut down, that you may construct siegeworks against the city that is making war with you until it falls.
The poor » Care for » Is characteristic of saints
His righteousness endures forever;
His
as it is written,
“He scattered abroad, he gave to the poor,
His righteousnessendures forever.”
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His righteousness
The wicked does not understand such
The poor » Care for » Should be urged
But just as you abound in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and in all earnestness and in the love we inspired in you, see that you abound in this gracious work also. I am not speaking this as a command, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity of your love also.
The poor » Care for » Is a fruit of repentance
And he would answer and say to them, “The man who has two tunics is to share with him who has none; and he who has food is to do likewise.”