Temptations are testings of your faith and works patience.

This is a good thing.

Count it all joy!

James 1:2-3 (KJV) – my brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

God knows you better than you know yourself.

He knows everything about you.

Psalm 139:3 (KJV) – thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

If you turn away from helping the poor, you will not be heard, not if, but when you need help.

Proverbs 21:13 (KJV) – whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.

If what you pray for has the wrong motive, don’t expect to receive it.

James 4:3 (KJV) – ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

Some say we’re not to keep praying and asking God for things.

You are to always pray.

I Thessalonians 5:17 (KJV) – pray without ceasing.

The poor man who walks in the right way is better than the rich man whose ways are unreasonable.

Proverbs 28:6 (KJV) – better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.

Keep yourself from doing evil for evil, but always do good to everyone.

I Thessalonians 5:15 (KJV) – see that none render evil for evil unto any man, but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.

We are to make others’ burdens light by barring them for them.

Galatians 6:2 (KJV) – bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

Those who are in Christ Jesus, who walk in the Spirit, have a right standing with God, and are no longer condemned.

Romans 8:1 (KJV) – there is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Don’t turn away from someone who asks to borrow from you.

Matthew 5:42 (KJV) – give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.