Bible verses about "defending" | Matthew

²⁶ A ryghtuous man falling down before the vngodlye, is like a troubled wel & a spring that is destroyed.

⁵² Then sayed Iesus vnto hym: put vp thy swearde into hys place. For all that laye hand on the swearde, shal perysh with the swerd. ⁵³ Eyther thynkest thou that I can not nowe praye to my father, and he shal geue me more then .xij. legyons of Angelles? ⁵⁴ But how then shoulde the scriptures be fulfylled: for so must it be.

³⁰ Iesus aunswered, and sayde: A certayne man descended from Ierusalem into Hierico, and fell into the handes of theues, which robbed hym of hys rayment, and wounded him, and departed leuynge him halfe dead. ³¹ And by chance there came a certayne priest that same waye, and when he sawe hym, he passed by. ³² And lykewyse a Leuite, when he was come nye to the place, went and loked on hym, and passed by. ³³ Then a certayne Samaritayne, as he iournyed, came nye vnto hym, and when he sawe hym, he had compassion on hym, ³⁴ and went to, and bounde vp hys woundes, & poureth in oyle and wyne, and put hym on hys owne beaste, and broughte him to a common ynne, and made prouysion for him. ³⁵ And on the morowe when he departed, he toke oute two pence, and gaue them to the hoste, and sayde vnto hym: Take cure of him, and whatsoeuer thou spendest more, when I come agayne, I wyll recompence the. ³⁶ Whiche nowe of these thre thinkest thou, was neyghboure vnto him that fell into the theues handes? ³⁷ And he sayd: he that shewed mercy on hym. Then sayd Iesus vnto hym: Go, & do thou lykewyse.

¹ Of Dauid. Blessed be the Lorde my refuge which teacheth my handes to warre, and my fyngers too fyght.

⁸ Yf there be anye that prouideth not for hys owne, & namely for them of hys housholde the same denyeth the fayth, & is worsse then an infydele.