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Isaiah 58:6-7
Isn’t the fast I choose: To break the chains of wickedness, to untie the ropes of the yoke, to set the oppressed free, and to tear off every yoke?Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your house, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to ignore your own flesh and blood?
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Psalms 82:4
Rescue the poor and needy; save them from the power of the wicked.”
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1 John 3 16-1 John 3 17
This is how we have come to know love: He laid down His life for us. We should also lay down our lives for our brothers.If anyone has this world’s goods and sees his brother in need but closes his eyes to his need— how can God’s love reside in him?
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Job 29:17
I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.
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Luke 23:23-25
But they kept up the pressure, demanding with loud voices that He be crucified. And their voices won out.So Pilate decided to grant their demandand released the one they were asking for, who had been thrown into prison for rebellion and murder. But he handed Jesus over to their will.
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Luke 10:31-32
A priest happened to be going down that road. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.In the same way, a Levite, when he arrived at the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.
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Acts 18:17
Then they all seized Sosthenes, the leader of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the judge’s bench. But none of these things concerned Gallio.
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Acts 21:31-32
As they were trying to kill him, word went up to the commander of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in chaos.Taking along soldiers and centurions, he immediately ran down to them. Seeing the commander and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.
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1 Samuel 26 8-1 Samuel 26 9
Then Abishai said to David,“ Today God has handed your enemy over to you. Let me thrust the spear through him into the ground just once. I won’t have to strike him twice!”But David said to Abishai,“ Don’t destroy him, for who can lift a hand against the Lord’s anointed and be blameless?”
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Acts 23:23-35
He summoned two of his centurions and said,“ Get 200 soldiers ready with 70 cavalry and 200 spearmen to go to Caesarea at nine tonight.Also provide mounts so they can put Paul on them and bring him safely to Felix the governor.”He wrote a letter of this kind:Claudius Lysias, To the most excellent governor Felix: Greetings.When this man had been seized by the Jews and was about to be killed by them, I arrived with my troops and rescued him because I learned that he is a Roman citizen.Wanting to know the charge they were accusing him of, I brought him down before their Sanhedrin.I found out that the accusations were about disputed matters in their law, and that there was no charge that merited death or chains.When I was informed that there was a plot against the man, I sent him to you right away. I also ordered his accusers to state their case against him in your presence.Therefore, the soldiers took Paul during the night and brought him to Antipatris as they were ordered.The next day, they returned to the barracks, allowing the cavalry to go on with him.When these men entered Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him.After he read it, he asked what province he was from. So when he learned he was from Cilicia,he said,“ I will give you a hearing whenever your accusers get here too.” And he ordered that he be kept under guard in Herod’s palace.
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Acts 23:10
When the dispute became violent, the commander feared that Paul might be torn apart by them and ordered the troops to go down, rescue him from them, and bring him into the barracks.
