Matthew 10:40
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Rewards
40 “Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me.(A)
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John 13:20
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20 Very truly, I tell you, whoever receives one whom I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me.”(A)
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Luke 10:16
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16 “Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me, and whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”(A)
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Luke 9:48
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48 and said to them, “Whoever welcomes this child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me, for the least among all of you is the greatest.”(A)
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Matthew 18:5
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5 Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me.(A)
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2 John 9
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9 Everyone who does not abide in the teaching of Christ, but goes beyond it,[a] does not have God; whoever abides in the teaching[b] has both the Father and the Son.(A)
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Galatians 4:14
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14 though my condition put you to the test, you did not scorn or despise me but welcomed me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.
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John 5:23
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23 so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.(A)
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Matthew 25:40
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40 And the king will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did it to me.’(A)
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John 20:21
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21 Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.”(A)
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Mark 9:37
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37 “Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me.”(A)
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Matthew 25:45
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45 Then he will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’(A)
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1 John 2:22-23
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22 Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ?[a] This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son. 23 No one who denies the Son has the Father; everyone who confesses the Son has the Father also.(A)
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1 Thessalonians 4:8
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8 Therefore whoever rejects this rejects not human authority but God, who also gives his Holy Spirit to you.
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Philippians 2:10-11
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10 so that at the name given to Jesus
every knee should bend,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,(A)
11 and every tongue should confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.(B)
John 12:44-49
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Summary of Jesus’s Teaching
44 Then Jesus cried aloud: “Whoever believes in me believes not in me but in him who sent me.(A) 45 And whoever sees me sees him who sent me.(B) 46 I have come as light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in the darkness.(C) 47 I do not judge anyone who hears my words and does not keep them, for I came not to judge the world but to save the world.(D) 48 The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; on the last day the word that I have spoken will serve as judge,(E) 49 for I have not spoken on my own, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment about what to say and what to speak.
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2 Corinthians 5:20
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20 So we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us; we entreat you on behalf of Christ: be reconciled to God.(A)
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