<p class="poetry">Because of<n id="1" /> our God&#8217;s tender mercy<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the dawn<n id="3" /> will break<n id="4" /> upon us from on highp>

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.&#8217;

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Blessed<n id="1" /> be the Lord God of Israel,p> <p class="poetry">because he has come to help<n id="2" /> and has redeemed<n id="3" /> his people.p>

Simeon<n id="1" /> has explained<n id="2" /> how God first concerned himself<n id="3" /> to select<n id="4" /> from among the Gentiles<n id="5" /> 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.&#8217;

But carefully select from among you, brothers,<n id="1" /> seven<n id="2" /> men who are well-attested,<n id="3" /> full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may put in charge<n id="4" /> of this necessary task.<n id="5" />

But when he was about forty years old, it entered his mind<n id="1" /> to visit his fellow countrymen<n id="2" /> the Israelites.<n id="3" />

Instead someone testified somewhere:p> <p class="otpoetry">&#8220;<b><i>What is man that you think of himi>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>or the son of man that you care for him?i>b>p>

Fear<n id="1" /> seized them all, and they began to glorify<n id="2" /> God, saying, &#8220;A great prophet<n id="3" /> has appeared<n id="4" /> among us!&#8221; and &#8220;God has come to help<n id="5" /> his people!&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">After some days Paul said to Barnabas, &#8220;Let&#8217;s return<n id="1" /> and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord<n id="2" /> to see how they are doing.&#8221;<n id="3" />

Pure and undefiled religion before<n id="1" /> God the Father<n id="2" /> is this: to care for orphans and widows in their misfortune and to keep oneself unstained by the world.p>