Matthew 18:10

Jesus warns against despising the little ones, for their angels always behold the Father's face. God's special care for the lowly should shape how we treat them.

Cross-references · 40

• Ps 91:11For He will command His angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.
• Heb 1:14Are not the angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?
• Ps 34:7The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear Him, and he delivers them.
• Luke 16:22One day the beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. And the rich man also died and was buried.
• Acts 12:7–11Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He tapped Peter on the side and woke him up, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off his wrists.
• 2 Kgs 6:16–17“Do not be afraid,” Elisha answered, “for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”
• Matt 1:20But after he had pondered these things, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to embrace Mary as your wife, for the One conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.
• Matt 18:14In the same way, your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish.
• Matt 18:6But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
• Gen 32:1–2Jacob also went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
• Matt 24:31And He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.
• 1 Cor 16:11No one, then, should treat him with contempt. Send him on his way in peace so that he can return to me, for I am expecting him along with the brothers.
• Luke 1:19“I am Gabriel,” replied the angel. “I stand in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news.
• Acts 12:15“You are out of your mind,” they told her. But when she kept insisting it was so, they said, “It must be his angel.”
• Matt 2:13When the Magi had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and flee to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the Child to kill Him.”
• 1 Th 4:8Anyone, then, who rejects this command does not reject man but God, the very One who gives you His Holy Spirit.
• Rom 14:21It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything to cause your brother to stumble.
• Matt 2:19After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt.
• 1 Cor 11:22Don’t you have your own homes in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What can I say to you? Shall I praise you for this? No, I will not!
• 1 Cor 8:8–13But food does not bring us closer to God: We are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.
• Ps 17:15As for me, I will behold Your face in righteousness; when I awake, I will be satisfied in Your presence.
• Rom 14:13–15Therefore let us stop judging one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother’s way.
• Acts 10:3One day at about the ninth hour, he had a clear vision of an angel of God who came to him and said, “Cornelius!”
• Acts 27:23For just last night an angel of God, whose I am and whom I serve, stood beside me
• Rom 14:1–3Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on his opinions.
• Acts 12:23Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
• Rom 14:10Why, then, do you judge your brother? Or why do you belittle your brother? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat.
• 1 Kgs 22:19Micaiah continued, “Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by Him on His right and on His left.
• 2 Cor 10:10For some say, “His letters are weighty and forceful, but his physical presence is unimpressive, and his speaking is of no account.”
• Ps 15:4who despises the vile but honors those who fear the LORD, who does not revise a costly oath,
• Zech 4:10For who has despised the day of small things? But these seven eyes of the LORD, which scan the whole earth, will rejoice when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel.”
• Acts 5:19But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail and brought them out, saying,
• 1 Tim 4:12Let no one despise your youth, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
• Luke 10:16Whoever listens to you listens to Me; whoever rejects you rejects Me; and whoever rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me.”
• Rom 15:1We who are strong ought to bear with the shortcomings of the weak and not to please ourselves.
• 1 Cor 9:22To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.
• Esth 1:14His closest advisors were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media who had personal access to the king and ranked highest in the kingdom.
• Gal 4:13–14You know that it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you.
• 2 Cor 10:1Now by the mildness and gentleness of Christ, I appeal to you—I, Paul, who am humble when face to face with you, but bold when away.
• Matt 12:20A bruised reed He will not break, and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish, till He leads justice to victory.

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