What you did to the least of these

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Salvation is by faith. Yet attaining salvation is based on how we treat the weakest members of society.

 


 

 

Jeremiah 7:5. For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

Jeremiah 7:6. if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt;

Zechariah 2:8. For the LORD of Hosts says: ‘For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.

 

Sirach 7:35. Be not slow to visit a sick man; For by such things you will gain love.

Wisdom 7:35. Be not slow to visit a sick man; For by such things you will gain love.

 

Matthew 12:50. For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.

Matthew 25:35. for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.

Matthew 25:36. I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’

Matthew 25:40. The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

James 1:27. Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

 

SEE ALSO

The Sheep and the Goats. The LORD God will gather all people. He will judge them, separating sheep from goats. The righteous people will be on his right; the wicked on his left.

The Right Hand of God the Father. The Bible often mentions “the right hand” of God. That is a position of power and honor. We believe it refers to Jesus Christ.

What you did to the least of these. Salvation is by faith. Yet attaining salvation is based on how we treat the weakest members of society.

 


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