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Who washes the dishes or garbage strip?

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In Galatians 6:10 Paul says, "let us do good to everyone, but especially to the family of faith." Our good deeds should reach all people, Christians or not. We should follow the example of our Heavenly Father who "makes his sun rise on good and bad, and sends rain on the just and unjust."  Notwithstanding the statement of Paul is a priority of responsibility: after the first believers and unbelievers. I think we can draw from this order, a priority similar regarding our families. We should do good to all men, but mostly of our family. Paul told Timothy: "If anyone does not care for her and especially to his own house, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever" (1 Timothy 5:8). Good works should begin at home. If we go out to do good works while the other "forgotten" the needs of the wife, spouse, daughter, grandson, mother, father, father-in-law ..... we are not exercising the grace of goodness or good works.   A