Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your house, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to ignore your own flesh and blood? ,
Matthew 25:36 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised I was naked and you clothed me; I was ill and you took care of me; I was in prison and you visited me.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you visited Me with help and ministering care, I was in prison and you came to see Me. [Isa. 58:7.] American Standard Version (1901) naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came unto me. Common English Bible I was naked and you gave me clothes to wear. I was sick and you took care of me. I was in prison and you visited me.’ Catholic Public Domain Version naked, and you covered me; sick, and you visited me; I was in prison, and you came to me.' Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Naked, and you covered me: sick, and you visited me: I was in prison, and you came to me. |
Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your house, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to ignore your own flesh and blood? ,
He doesn’t oppress anyone, hold collateral, or commit robbery. He gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.
He doesn’t oppress anyone but returns his collateral to the debtor. He does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.
You have not strengthened the weak, healed the ill, bandaged the injured, brought back the strays, or sought the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.
‘Then the righteous will answer him, “Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?
I was a stranger and you didn’t take me in; I was naked and you didn’t clothe me, ill and in prison and you didn’t take care of me.”
He replied to them, ‘The one who has two shirts must share with someone who has none, and the one who has food must do the same.’
In every way I’ve shown you that it is necessary to help the weak by labouring like this and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, because he said, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” ’
For you sympathised with the prisoners and accepted with joy the confiscation of your possessions, because you know that you yourselves have a better and enduring possession. ,
Remember those in prison, as though you were in prison with them, and the mistreated, as though you yourselves were suffering bodily.
Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained from the world.