Don’t participate in the fruitless works of darkness, but instead expose them.
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Ephesians 5:11
If you love me you will keep my commandments.
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John 14:15
Who made the human mouth? Who makes him mute or deaf, seeing or blind? Is it not I? Now go! I will help you speak and I will teach you what to say.
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Exodus 4:11-12
But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
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Matthew 5:44
But they set an ambush for themselves; they attack their own lives. Such are the paths of all who profit dishonestly; it takes the lives of those who receive it.
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Proverbs 1:18
If you see oppression of the poor and perversion of justice and righteousness in the province, don’t be astonished at the situation, because one officials protects another official, and higher officials protect them.
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Ecclesiastes 5:8
Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding,
In all your ways submit to him,
And he will make your paths straight.
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Proverbs 3:5-6
For God has not given us a spirit of fearfulness, but one of power, love, and sound judgment.
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2 Timothy 1:7
Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
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James 1:27
For man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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Matthew 4:4
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies, you anoint my head with oil, my cup overflows.
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Psalm 23:5
Become wise by walking with the wise; hang out with fools and watch your life fall to pieces.
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Proverbs 13:20 MSG
But when He heard this, He said, “Those who are well don’t need a doctor, but the sick do. Go and learn what this means.”
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Matthew 9:12-13
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.
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1 John 3:16
Surely, the practice of extortion turns a wise person into a fool, and a bribe destroys the mind.
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Ecclesiastes 7:7
If anyone wants to come with Me, he must deny himself take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of Me will find it.
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Matthew 16:25
We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
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Isaiah 53:6
Make this your common practice: Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you can live together whole and healed. The prayer of a person living right with God is something powerful to be reckoned with. Elijah, for instance, human just like us, prayed hard that it wouldn’t rain, and it didn’t—not a drop for three and a half years. Then he prayed that it would rain, and it did. The showers came and everything started growing again.
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James 5:18-18
When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.
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Proverbs 11:2
The wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also knew that one fate comes to them both.
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Ecclesiastes 2:14