Matthew 25:45

World English Bible (2000)

"Then he will answer them, saying, 'Most certainly I tell you, inasmuch as you didn't do it to one of the least of these, you didn't do it to me.'

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  • Matt 25:40 : 40 "The King will answer them, 'Most certainly I tell you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.'
  • Ps 105:15 : 15 "Don't touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!"
  • Prov 14:31 : 31 He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.
  • Prov 17:5 : 5 Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.
  • Prov 21:13 : 13 Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.
  • Acts 9:5 : 5 He said, "Who are you, Lord?" The Lord said, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
  • 1 John 3:12-20 : 12 unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous. 13 Don't be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn't love his brother remains in death. 15 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him. 16 By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 17 But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him? 18 My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth. 19 And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him, 20 because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
  • 1 John 5:1-3 : 1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him. 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
  • John 15:18-19 : 18 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
  • Gen 12:3 : 3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. All of the families of the earth will be blessed in you."
  • Num 24:9 : 9 He couched, he lay down as a lion, as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Everyone who blesses you is blessed. Everyone who curses you is cursed."
  • Zech 2:8 : 8 For thus says Yahweh of Armies: 'For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.

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    28 Take away therefore the talent from him, and give it to him who has the ten talents.

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    30 Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'

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    33 He will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

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    36 I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.'

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    39 When did we see you sick, or in prison, and come to you?'

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