40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’(A)

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40 “Then the King will answer, ‘I tell you the truth, anything you did for even the least of my people here, you also did for me.’

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40 “And the King will say, ‘I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters,[a] you were doing it to me!’

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Footnotes

  1. 25:40 Greek my brothers.

40 The king will answer, “Whenever you did it for any of my people, no matter how unimportant they seemed, you did it for me.”

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37-40 “Then those ‘sheep’ are going to say, ‘Master, what are you talking about? When did we ever see you hungry and feed you, thirsty and give you a drink? And when did we ever see you sick or in prison and come to you?’ Then the King will say, ‘I’m telling the solemn truth: Whenever you did one of these things to someone overlooked or ignored, that was me—you did it to me.’

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