Because of our God’s tender mercy the dawn will break upon us from on high

I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.’

“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, because he has come to help and has redeemed his people.

Simeon has explained how God first concerned himself to select from among the Gentiles a people for his name.

I was a stranger and you did not receive me as a guest, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’

But carefully select from among you, brothers, seven men who are well-attested, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may put in charge of this necessary task.

But when he was about forty years old, it entered his mind to visit his fellow countrymen the Israelites.

Instead someone testified somewhere: “What is man that you think of him or the son of man that you care for him?

Fear seized them all, and they began to glorify God, saying, “A great prophet has appeared among us!” and “God has come to help his people!”

After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s return and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord to see how they are doing.”

Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their misfortune and to keep oneself unstained by the world.