For I am the LORD, your God, who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, do not fear; I will help you

Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.

But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

Whoever oppresses his brother in his honor or anything else should resolve the matter today before it cannot be resolved with gold and silver coins. If he has good deeds to his credit, they will be taken from him according to the measure of his oppression, but if he has no good deeds left, then he will bear the evil deeds of his companion.

Affliction has befallen me: but You are the most merciful of the merciful!

Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept!