If I did not help someone I could...

[TouchTestimony]

A pretty straightforward question. In these trying times when help is frequently sought, would I become a sinner if I did not help someone I could have???

 

[agua]

We are told to help those in need. So yes it is a sin to not help.


Mat 25:43-45 I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.' (44) "Then they also will answer Him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?' (45) Then He will answer them, saying, 'Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.'


1Jn 3:17-18 But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him? (18) My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

Heb 13:16 But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Eph 4:28 Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need.


And just in case we think this only applies to helping our brothers and sisters.

Mat 5:44-45 But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, (45) that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

 

[TouchTestimony]

We are told to help those in need. So yes it is a sin to not help.


Mat 25:43-45 I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.' (44) "Then they also will answer Him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?' (45) Then He will answer them, saying, 'Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.'


1Jn 3:17-18 But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him? (18) My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

Heb 13:16 But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Eph 4:28 Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need.


And just in case we think this only applies to helping our brothers and sisters.

Mat 5:44-45 But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, (45) that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

thank you kindly for the answer

 

[Rad]

agua,........ great reply,....... goes to the Heart of our faith, of what it means to "Love your Neighbour as yourself",...... I think our greatest sins are committed not through what we do,...... but what we don't do,......... they are sins of ommission not of commission,........ 12 million men, women and children are starving to death in the Horn of Africa,........ 25,000 young children die every day from hunger and easily preventable disease,........ over 1 billion people live in abject poverty barely surviving on less than $1 a day,....... and what do each of us do about it?.

 

[agua]

.... and what do each of us do about it?.

Not enough imo.

 

[TouchTestimony]

Not enough imo.

truer words hath not been spoken