if I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing, or the needy without covering,
For you have exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing and stripped the naked of their clothing.
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that?
So Peter rose and went with them. And when he arrived, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood beside him weeping and showing tunics and other garments that Dorcas made while she was with them.
And he answered them, “Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.”
I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’
I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’
Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?
The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
They thrust the poor off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves.
And the men who have been mentioned by name rose and took the captives, and with the spoil they clothed all who were naked among them. They clothed them, gave them sandals, provided them with food and drink, and anointed them, and carrying all the feeble among them on donkeys, they brought them to their kinsfolk at Jericho, the city of palm trees. Then they returned to Samaria.
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