What does the Bible say about help others?
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The Bible teaches that God calls His people to help others with generous, faithful love, not to earn salvation but as the fruit of faith in Christ. Galatians 6:2 urges believers to bear one another’s burdens, while 2 Thessalonians 3:13 calls them not to grow weary in doing good. Jesus teaches generosity in Luke 6:38 and directs His followers to invest in eternal treasure by giving to those in need in Luke 12:33-34. James 1:27 and James 2:8 show that true religion and love of neighbor include practical care for the vulnerable. Such service reflects Christ’s own self-giving love, shown supremely in John 15:13.
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- 2 Thessalonians 3:13 14 votes
But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing what is right.
- Luke 6:38 12 votes
“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”
- Galatians 6:2 8 votes
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
- James 1:27 6 votes
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
- James 2:8 6 votes
However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.
- Proverbs 19:17 5 votes
He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.
- Luke 12:33-34 5 votes
Sell what you have and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
- John 15:13 4 votes
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
- John 14:15 4 votes
If you love me, keep my commandments.
- Matthew 6:19-21 4 votes
“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal; for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
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