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| A common practice during the dedication of a Habitat house is the presentation of a Bible. |
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- "If there is a poor man with you, one of your brothers, in any of your towns in your land which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart, nor close your hand from your poor brother; but you shall freely open your hand to him, and shall generously lend him sufficient for his need in whatever he lacks. ...You shall give generously to him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because for this thing the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all your undertakings." --Deuteronomy 15: 7-8, 10
- "If you lend money to My people, to the poor among you, you are not to act as a creditor to him; you shall not charge him interest." --Exodus 22:25
- "But when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered themselves together. One of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, 'Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?' And He said to him, 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'" --Matthew 22: 34-39
- "He who shuts his ear to the cry of the poor will also cry himself and not be answered." --Proverbs 21:13
- "Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth." --1 John 3:18
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