Matthew 25:40

The King answers that whatever they did for the least of his brothers, they did for him. Christ identifies himself with his needy people.

Cross-references · 34

• Prov 19:17He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.
• Prov 14:31He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.
• Matt 10:42Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”
• Mark 9:41For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you are Christ’s, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.
• 1 Pet 1:22Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
• Matt 18:5–6Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,
• Gal 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
• Matt 10:40He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.
• 1 Jn 3:14–19We 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.
• 1 Jn 4:7–12Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.
• Gal 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
• Matt 18:10See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
• 1 Jn 4:20If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
• Heb 6:10For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
• 2 Cor 8:7–9But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.
• 1 Th 4:9–10But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
• John 21:15–17So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”
• 2 Cor 5:14–15For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.
• Gal 5:13For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
• Eph 5:30because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.
• Acts 9:4–5He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”
• 2 Sam 9:7David said to him, “Don’t be afraid of him; for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father’s sake, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your father. You will eat bread at my table continually.”
• Mark 3:34–35Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers!
• Matt 25:34Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
• Matt 28:10Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t be afraid. Go tell my brothers that they should go into Galilee, and there they will see me.”
• John 19:26–27Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!”
• Heb 2:11–15For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,
• 1 Cor 16:21–22This greeting is by me, Paul, with my own hand.
• Matt 12:49–50He stretched out his hand towards his disciples, and said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers!
• 2 Sam 9:1David said, “Is there yet any who is left of Saul’s house, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan’s sake?”
• 2 Cor 4:5For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake;
• Rom 8:29For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
• John 20:17Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
• Prov 25:6–7Don’t exalt yourself in the presence of the king, or claim a place among great men;

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