Bible verses about "welfare" | Tyndale

¹ We which are stronge ought to beare the fraylnes of them which are weake and not to stonde in oure awne cosaytes. ² Let every man please his neghbour vnto his welth and edyfyinge.

¹⁷ Recopence to no ma evyll fore evyll. Provyde afore honde thinges honest in ye syght of all men. ¹⁸ Yf it be possible howbe it of youre parte have peace with all men. ¹⁹ Derly beloued avenge not youre selves but geve roume vnto the wrath of God. For it is written: vengeaunce is myne and I will rewarde saith the lorde. ²⁰ Terfore yf thyn enemy honger fede him: yf he thurst geve him drinke. For in so doynge thou shalt heape coles of fyre on his heed: ²¹ Be not overcome of evyll: But overcome evyll wt goodnes.

⁸ Nether toke we breed of eny ma for nought: but wrought with laboure and travayle nyght and daye because we wolde not be grevous to eny of you:

⁹ When ye repe doune the rype corne of youre lande, ye shal not repe doune the vtmost borders of youre feldes, nether shalt thou gather that which is left behynd in thy haruest. ¹⁰ Thou shalt not plucke in all thy vyneyarde clene, nether gather in the grapes that are ouerscaped. But thou shalt leaue them for the pore ad straunger. I am the Lord youre God.

² fulfyll my ioye that ye drawe one waye havinge one love beynge of one accorde and of one mynde ³ that nothinge be done thorow stryfe or vayne glory but that in mekenes of mynde every man esteme other better then him selfe ⁴ and that no man consyder his awne but what is mete for other. ⁵ Let the same mynde be in you that was in Christ Iesu: ⁶ Which beynge in the shape of god and thought it not robbery to be equall with god. ⁷ Neverthelesse he made him silfe of no reputacion and toke on him the shape of a servaunte and became lyke vnto men ⁸ and was founde in his aparell as a man. He humbled him silfe and became obediet vnto ye deeth even the deeth of the crosse.

¹⁴ What a vayleth it my brethren though a man saye he hath sayth when he hath no dedes? Can fayth save him? ¹⁵ If a brother or a sister be naked or destitute of dayly fode ¹⁶ and one of you saye vnto them: Departe in peace God sende you warmnes and fode: not withstondinge ye geve the not tho thynges which are nedfull to the body: what helpeth it the? ¹⁷ Eve so fayth yf it have no dedes is deed in it selfe. ¹⁸ Ye and a man myght saye: Thou hast fayth and I have dedes: Shewe me thy fayth by thy dedes: and I will shewe the my fayth by my dedes. ¹⁹ Belevest thou yt ther is one God? Thou doest well. The devyls also beleve and tremble. ²⁰ Wilt thou vnderstonde o thou vayne man that fayth with out dedes is deed? ²¹ Was not Abraha oure father iustified thorow workes when he offered Isaac his sonne vpo the aultre? ²² Thou seist how that fayth wrought with his dedes and through the dedes was the fayth made parfect: ²³ and ye scripture was fulfilled which sayth: Abraham beleved God and it was reputed vnto him for rightewesnes: and he was called the frede of God. ²⁴ Ye se then how that of dedes a man is iustified and not of fayth only.

⁶ We requyre you brethren in the name of oure lorde Iesu Christ yt ye with drawe youre selves from every brother that walketh inordinatly and not after the institucio which ye receaved of vs. ⁷ Ye youre selves knowe how ye ought to folowe vs. For we behaved not oure selves inordinatly amonge you. ⁸ Nether toke we breed of eny ma for nought: but wrought with laboure and travayle nyght and daye because we wolde not be grevous to eny of you: ⁹ not but that we had auctoritie: but to make oure selves an insample vnto you to folowe vs. ¹⁰ For when we were with you this we warned you of yt yf ther were eny which wolde not worke that ye same shuld not eate. ¹¹ We have hearde saye no doute that ther are some which walke amonge you inordinatly and worke not at all but are besy bodies. ¹² Them that are soche we commaunde and exhorte by oure lorde Iesu Christ that they worke with quyetnes and eate their awne breed.

³⁵ I have shewed you all thinges how that so laborynge ye ought to receave the weake and to remember the wordes of the Lorde Iesu howe that he sayde: It is more blessed to geve then to receave.

⁷ When one of thi brethern amonge you is waxed poore in any of thi cities within thi lode which the Lorde thi God geueth the, se that thou harden not thine hert nor shetto thyne hande from thi poore brother: ⁸ But open thyne hande vnto him and lende him sufficient for his nede which he hath. ⁹ And beware that there be not a poynte of Belial in thine hert, that thou woldest saye. The seuenth yere, the yere of fredome is at honde, and therfore it greue the to loke on thy poore brother and geuest him nought and he then crye vnto the Lorde agenst the and it be synne vnto the: ¹⁰ But geue him, and let it not greue thine hert to geue. Because that for that thinge, the Lorde thy God shall blesse the in all thi workes and in all that thou puttest thine hande to. ¹¹ For the londe shall neuer be without poore. Wherfore I comaunde the sayenge: open thine hande vnto thi brother that is neady ad poore in thy lande.