Isa 16:3-4, Luk 15:15-24, Tit 3:2-3 | ESV | STEP | Give counsel ; grant justice ; make your shade like night at the height of noon ; shelter the outcasts ; do not reveal the fugitive ;

n[See ver. 19 above]

q Zech. 3:3-5

r Gen. 41:42; Esth. 3:10; 8:2

s Ezek. 16:10

t[1 Sam. 28:24]

u[ch. 12:19]

v ver. 32; [Rom. 11:15; Eph. 2:1; Col. 2:13; Rev. 3:1]

w Eph. 4:31

x 1 Tim. 3:3

ySee 2 Tim. 2:25

zSee 1 Cor. 6:11

Isaiah 16:3-4

3 “Give counsel;
grant justice;
^amake your shade like night
at the height of noon;
shelter the outcasts;
do not reveal the fugitive;
4 let ^bthe outcasts of Moab
sojourn among you;
be a shelter to them ^{▼▼Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac; Masoretic Text let my outcasts sojourn among you; as for Moab, be a shelter to them}
from the destroyer.
When the oppressor is no more,
and destruction has ceased,
and he who tramples underfoot has vanished from the land,

Luke 15:15-24

15 So he went and hired himself out to ^{▼▼Greek joined himself to} one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs. 16 And he ^ewas longing to be fed with the pods that the pigs ate, and no one gave him anything.

17 “But ^fwhen he ^gcame to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger! 18 I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, ^hI have sinned against ⁱheaven and before you. 19 ^jI am no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me as one of your hired servants.”’ 20 And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ^kran and ^lembraced him and ^mkissed him. 21 And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. ⁿI am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ ^{▼▼Some manuscripts add treat me as one of your hired servants} 22 But the father said to his servants, ^{▼▼Greek bondservants} ‘Bring quickly ^qthe best robe, and put it on him, and put ^ra ring on his hand, and ^sshoes on his feet. 23 And bring ^tthe fattened calf and kill it, and ^ulet us eat and celebrate. 24 For this my son ^vwas dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.’ And they began to celebrate.

Titus 3:2-3

2 ^wto speak evil of no one, ^xto avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and ^yto show perfect courtesy toward all people. 3 For ^zwe ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.