Isaiah 16:3-4
16:3 “Bring a plan, make a decision!
Provide some shade in the middle of the day!
Hide the fugitives! Do not betray the one who tries to escape!
16:4 Please let the Moabite fugitives live among you.
Hide them from the destroyer!”
Certainly the one who applies pressure will cease,
the destroyer will come to an end,
those who trample will disappear from the earth.
Luke 15:15-24
15:15 So he went and worked for
one of the citizens of that country, who
sent him to his fields to feed pigs.
15:16 He
was longing to eat
the carob pods
the pigs were eating, but
no one gave him anything.
15:17 But when he came to his senses
he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired workers have food
enough to spare, but here I am dying from hunger!
15:18 I will get up and go to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned
against heaven
and against
you.
15:19 I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me
like one of your hired workers.”’
15:20 So
he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way from home
his father saw him, and his heart went out to him;
he ran and hugged
his son
and kissed him.
15:21 Then
his son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven
and against you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
15:22 But the father said to his slaves,
‘Hurry! Bring the best robe,
and put it on him! Put a ring on his finger
and sandals
on his feet!
15:23 Bring
the fattened calf
and kill it! Let us eat
and celebrate,
15:24 because this son of mine was dead, and is alive again – he was lost and is found!’
So
they began to celebrate.
Titus 3:2-3
3:2 They must not slander
anyone, but be peaceable, gentle, showing complete courtesy to all people.
3:3 For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.