Thematic Bible: Care for


Thematic Bible



When thou layest siege unto a city many days, to fight against it, to capture it, thou dost not destroy its trees to force an axe against them, for of them thou dost eat, and them thou dost not cut down -- for man's is the tree of the field -- to go in at thy presence in the siege. Only, the tree, which thou knowest that it is not a fruit-tree, it thou dost destroy, and hast cut down, and hast built a bulwark against the city which is making with thee war till thou hast subdued it.



(according as it hath been written, 'He dispersed abroad, he gave to the poor, his righteousness doth remain to the age,')



but even as in every thing ye do abound, in faith, and word, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in your love to us, that also in this grace ye may abound; not according to command do I speak, but because of the diligence of others, and of your love proving the genuineness,


and he answering saith to them, 'He having two coats -- let him impart to him having none, and he having victuals -- in like manner let him do.'