Bible verses about "welfare" | Worrell

¹ Now we, the strong, ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. ² Let each one of us please his neighbor in that which is good for his edification;

¹⁷ recompensing to no one evil for evil; providing things honorable in the sight of all men; ¹⁸ if it be possible, so far as it depends on you, being at peace with all men; ¹⁹ not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath of God: for it has been written, "Vengeance is Mine; I will recompense," saith the Lord. ²⁰ But, if your enemy hungers, feed him; if he thirsts, give him drink; for, in doing this, you will heap coals of fire upon his head. ²¹ Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

⁸ nor did we eat any one's bread, gratuitously: but, in labor and toil, working night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you;

² fill ye up my joy, that ye think the same thing; having the same love; united in soul; minding the one thing; ³ doing nothing through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind, each esteeming others better than himself; ⁴ not looking each to his own things, but each also to the things of others. ⁵ Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus; ⁶ Who, existing originally in the form of God, accounted it not a prize to he equal with God. ⁷ but emptied Himself, taking a slave's form, coming to be in the likeness of men; ⁸ and, being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, becoming obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

¹⁴ What profit is it, my brethren, if anyone says he has faith, but has not works; can such faith save him? ¹⁵ If a brother or a sister be naked, and in want of daily food, ¹⁶ and one of you say to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," but ye give them not the things needful for the body, what does it profit? ¹⁷ Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself. ¹⁸ But some one will say, "You have faith, and I have works": show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. ¹⁹ You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder! ²⁰ But are you willing to know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is worthless? ²¹ Was not Abraham, our father, justified by works, when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? ²² You see that faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith perfected; ²³ and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness"; and he was called "God's Friend." ²⁴ Ye see that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

⁶ Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother walking disorderly, and not according to the instruction which ye received from us. ⁷ For ye yourselves know that ye should imitate us; because we were not disorderly among you; ⁸ nor did we eat any one's bread, gratuitously: but, in labor and toil, working night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you; ⁹ not because we have not authority, but that we might give ourselves as a model to you, that ye might imitate us. ¹⁰ For, even when we were with you, this we commanded you, "If anyone is not willing to work, neither let him eat." ¹¹ For we hear of some who walk among you in a disorderly manner, who work not at all, but are busybodies. ¹² Now such we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that, working with quietness, they eat their own bread.

³⁵ In all things I showed you that, thus laboring, ye ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."