Thematic Bible: Of mercy and help


Thematic Bible



I was a stranger, and you took me not in: naked, and you clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and you visited me not.

Because he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.



The diseased have you not strengthened, neither have you healed those who were sick, neither have you bound up those who were broken, neither have you brought again those who were driven away, neither have you sought those who were lost; but with force and with cruelty have you ruled them.

For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who shall not visit those that are cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that which stands: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their hoofs in pieces.

And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, who was laid at his gate, full of sores, And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.