⁴⁵ "Then he will answer them, saying, 'Most assuredly I tell you, inasmuch as you didn't do it to one of the least of these, you didn't do it to me.'

⁴⁰ "The King will answer them, 'Most assuredly I tell you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers{The word for "brothers" here may be also correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."}, you did it to me.'

⁵ He said, "Who are you, Lord?" The Lord said, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.{TR adds "It's hard for you to kick against the goads."}

¹³ Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, He will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

⁵ Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

³¹ He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, But he who is kind to the needy honors him.

¹⁵ "Don't touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!"

¹ Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Whoever loves the father also loves the child who is born of him.

² By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

³ For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

¹² unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

¹³ Don't be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

¹⁴ We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn't love his brother remains in death.

¹⁵ Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

¹⁶ By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

¹⁷ But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

¹⁸ My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

¹⁹ And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,

²⁰ because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

¹⁸ If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

¹⁹ If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

⁸ For thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.

⁹ He couched, he lay down as a lion, As a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Blessed be everyone who blesses you, Cursed be everyone who curses you.

³ I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. In you will all of the families of the earth be blessed."