Verse 16

and any one of you may say to them, `Depart ye in peace, be warmed, and be filled,' and may not give to them the things needful for the body, what `is' the profit?

Referenced Verses

  • Matt 25:42-45 : 42 for I did hunger, and ye gave me not to eat; I did thirst, and ye gave me not to drink; 43 a stranger I was, and ye did not receive me; naked, and ye put not around me; infirm, and in prison, and ye did not look after me. 44 `Then shall they answer, they also, saying, Lord, when did we see thee hungering, or thirsting, or a stranger, or naked, or infirm, or in prison, and we did not minister to thee? 45 `Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did `it' not to one of these, the least, ye did `it' not to me.
  • Rom 12:9 : 9 The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;
  • 1 John 3:16-18 : 16 in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down; 17 and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him -- how doth the love of God remain in him? 18 My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!
  • 2 Cor 8:8 : 8 not according to command do I speak, but because of the diligence of others, and of your love proving the genuineness,
  • Job 22:7-9 : 7 Thou causest not the weary to drink water, And from the hungry thou withholdest bread. 8 As to the man of arm -- he hath the earth, And the accepted of face -- he dwelleth in it. 9 Widows thou hast sent away empty, And the arms of the fatherless are bruised.
  • Prov 3:27-28 : 27 Withhold not good from its owners, When thy hand `is' toward God to do `it'. 28 Say not thou to thy friend, `Go, and return, and to-morrow I give,' And substance with thee.
  • Matt 14:15-16 : 15 and evening having come, his disciples came to him, saying, `The place is desolate, and the hour hath now past, let away the multitudes that, having gone to the villages, they may buy to themselves food.' 16 And Jesus said to them, `They have no need to go away -- give ye them to eat.'
  • Matt 15:32 : 32 And Jesus having called near his disciples, said, `I have compassion upon the multitude, because now three days they continue with me, and they have not what they may eat; and to let them away fasting I will not, lest they faint in the way.'