The Scriptures remind us that God hates injustice and calls us to a love that takes action.
Verses
1 Corinthians 12:26
If one part [of the body] suffers, every part suffers with it
Micah 6:8
And what does the lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.
Hebrews 6:10
God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them.
1 John 2:9
Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness.
Acts 17:26
And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth
Matthew 7:12
Do to others what you would have them do to you.
Isaiah 58:6
Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke?
Psalm 140:12
I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted And justice for the poor.
John 13:35
“By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
1 John 3:18
Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth
James 2:17
…Faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself
James 1:27
Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress …
Matthew 25:40
[God says], “… to the extent that you [fed, hosted, clothed, visited those sick and in prison] for oneof these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.”
Ephesians 2:14
For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility
John 13:34
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.”
Acts 10:34-35
God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.
James 2:8-9
If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing right. But if you show favoritism, you sin.
Luke 10:27
… “‘Love the Lord your God ….’ and ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
Gen 1:27
So God created mankind in his own image…
1 John 4:11
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another
1 John 3:16
We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers
Proverbs 3:27
Do not withhold good from those who need it, when you have the ability to help.
Isaiah 58:10
…and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday.