Thematic Bible: Of home-keeping
Thematic Bible
Social duties » Of home-keeping » Of returning good for evil, encouraged
If you see the donkey of him who hates you lying under its burden, and would refrain to help him, you shall surely help with him.
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If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink:
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But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward shall be great, and you shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
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See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.
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Therefore if your enemy hungers, feed him; if he thirsts, give him drink: for in so doing you shall heap coals of fire on his head.
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But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them who despitefully use you, and persecute you;
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But I say unto you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to them who hate you,
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Social duties » Of home-keeping » Of restraining the tongue
If any man among you seems to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
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For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
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Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.
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He that keeps his mouth keeps his life: but he that opens wide his lips shall have destruction.
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Whosoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.
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Social duties » Of home-keeping » Of lending
Give to him that asks you, and from him that would borrow of you turn not away.
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But you shall open your hand wide unto him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he lacks.
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He is ever merciful, and lends; and his descendants are blessed.
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A good man shows favor, and lends: he will guide his affairs with discretion.
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But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward shall be great, and you shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
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Social duties » Of home-keeping » Admonitions concerning abiding at home
Yea also, because he transgresses by wine, he is a proud man, neither keeps at home, who enlarges his desire as sheol, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathers unto him all nations, and heaps unto him all people:
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To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
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Withdraw your foot from your neighbor's house; lest he be weary of you, and so hate you.
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- Almsgiving
- Altruism
- Avoiding Deceit
- Backbiting
- Backstabbers
- Bad Language
- Being Happy And Enjoying Life
- Being In Debt
- Benevolence
- Blessing Through God's People
- Charity
- Confidentiality
- Courtesy
- Creditors
- Cursing
- Discretion
- Do Good!
- Duties To Enemies
- Enemies
- Enemies, Christian Response To
- Enjoying Life
- Evil Speaking
- Feeding The Poor
- Forgiveness, Application Of
- Forgiving Others Who Hurt You
- Generosity, Human
- Generosity, Used Towards
- Giving Money To The Church
- Giving Without Expecting Return
- God Quenching Our Thirst
- Gossip
- Grace, In Human Relationships
- Hate
- How Silence Is Wise
- Interest
- Kindness
- Lending
- Lips
- Love Your Neighbour!
- Loving Your Enemies
- Opposition, To Sin And Evil
- People Providing Food
- Restrained Tongues
- Restraint
- Self Control
- Speaking, Evil
- Speech, Power And Significance Of
- The Tongue
- Tongue
- Turning The Other Cheek
- Watchfulness, Of Believers
- Ethics, social
- Evil, believers' responses to
- Hunger
- Tired
- Welcome