Bible verses about "values" | Moffatt

³² If you love only those who love you, what credit is that to you? Why, even sinful men love those who love them. ³³ If you help only those who help you, what merit is that to you? Why, even sinful men do that. ³⁴ If you only lend to those from whom you hope to get something, what credit is that to you? Even sinful men lend to one another, so as to get a fair return. ³⁵ No, you must love your enemies and help them, you must lend to them without expecting any return; then you will have a rich reward, you will be sons of the Most High for he is kind even to the ungrateful and the evil. ³⁶ Be merciful, as your Father is merciful. ³⁷ Also, judge not, and you will not be judged yourselves: condemn not, and you will not be condemned: pardon, and you will be pardoned yourselves: ³⁸ give, and you will have ample measure given you — they will pour into your lap measure pressed down, shaken together, and running over; for the measure you deal out to others will be dealt back to yourselves." ³⁹ He also told them a parabolic word: "Can one blind man lead another? will they not both fall into a pit? ⁴⁰ A scholar is not above his teacher: but if he is perfectly trained he will be like his teacher. ⁴¹ Why do you note the splinter in your brother's eye and fail to see the plank in your own eye? ⁴² How dare you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take out the splinter that is in your eye,' and you never notice the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite! take the plank out of your own eye first, and then you will see properly to take out the splinter in your brother's eye.

¹² Well then, whatever you would like men to do to you, do just the same to them; that is the meaning of the Law and the prophets.

²⁵ Also, whenever you stand up to pray, if you have anything against anybody, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your trespasses."

¹ Judge not, that you may not be judged yourselves; ² for as you judge so you will be judged, and the measure you deal out to others will be dealt out to yourselves. ³ Why do you note the splinter in your brother's eye and fail to see the plank in your own eye? ⁴ How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take out the splinter from your eye,' when there lies the plank in your own eye? ⁵ You hypocrite! take the plank out of your own eye first, and then you will see properly how to take the splinter out of your brother's eye.

⁸ Or again, suppose a woman has ten shillings. If she loses one of them, does she not light a lamp and scour the house and search carefully till she finds it?

⁷ Make no mistake — God is not to be mocked — a man will reap just what he sows; ⁸ he who sows for his flesh will reap destruction from the flesh, and he who sows for the Spirit will reap life eternal from the Spirit.

⁵ Keep your life free from the love of money; be content with what you have, for He has said, Never will I fail you, never will I forsake you.

¹⁹ Be sure of that, my beloved brothers. Let everyone be quick to listen, slow to talk, slow to be angry — ²⁰ for human anger does not promote divine righteousness;

¹⁴ My brothers, what is the use of anyone declaring he has faith, if he has no deeds to show? Can his faith save him? ¹⁵ Suppose some brother or sister is ill-clad and short of daily food; ¹⁶ if any of you says to them, "Depart in peace! Get warm, get food," without supplying their bodily needs, what use is that? ¹⁷ So faith, unless it has deeds, is dead in itself. ¹⁸ Someone will object, 'And you claim to have faith!' Yes, and I claim to have deeds as well; you show me your faith without any deeds, and I will show you by my deeds what faith is! ¹⁹ You believe in one God? Well and good. So do the devils, and they shudder. ²⁰ But will you understand, you senseless fellow, that faith without deeds is dead? ²¹ When our father Abraham offered his son Isaac on the altar, was he not justified by what he did? ²² In his case, you see, faith co-operated with deeds, faith was completed by deeds, ²³ and the scripture was fulfilled: Abraham believed God, and this was counted to him as righteousness — he was called God's friend. ²⁴ You observe it is by what he does that a man is justified, not simply by what he believes.

¹⁸ Pray for me, for I am sure I have a clean conscience; my desire is in every way to lead an honest life.

³⁵ I showed you how this was the way to work hard and succour the needy, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, who said, 'To give is happier than to get.'"

³¹ As you would like men to do to you, so do to them.

²² Act on the Word, instead of merely listening to it and deluding yourselves. ²³ For whoever listens and does nothing, is like a man who glances at his natural face in a mirror; ²⁴ he glances at himself, goes off, and at once forgets what he was like. ²⁵ Whereas he who gazes into the faultless law of freedom and remains in that position, proving himself to be no forgetful listener but an active agent, he will be blessed in his activity. ²⁶ Whoever considers he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, his religion is futile. ²⁷ Pure, unsoiled religion in the judgment of God the Father means this: to care for orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself from the stain of the world.

²⁴ No one can serve two masters: either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will stand by the one and despise the other — you cannot serve both God and Mammon.