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MatthewMat 25:41 MatthewMat 25 MatthewMat 25:43

for I was hungry, and you gave Me nothing to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me nothing to drink;

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflicted; Beneficence; Commandments; Duty; Hospitality; Hypocrisy; Jesus, the Christ; Jesus Continued; Judgment; Neighbor; Opportunity; Poor; Prisoners; Reward; Unfaithfulness; Works; Scofield Reference Index - Day (of Destruction); Thompson Chain Reference - Flock, God's; Starving the Flock; The Topic Concordance - Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ; Damnation; Eternal Life; Hell; Inheritance; Judgment; Kingdom of God; Punishment; Separation; Torrey's Topical Textbook - Poor, the;

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Hospitality; Judgment; Marriage; Poor; Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Assurance; Church; Food; Government; Hospitality; Lending; Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Animals; Ethics; Hell; Hospitality; Immortality; Jesus Christ; Judgment, Day of; Kingdom of God; Wages; Wealth; Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Annihilation; Holiness of God; Joy; Judgment, Last; Meditation; Easton Bible Dictionary - Judgment, the Final; Prophecy; Holman Bible Dictionary - Alms; Flock; Hospitality; Judgment Day; Kingdom of God; Life; Love; Matthew, the Gospel of; Naked; Resurrection; Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ethics; Love, Lover, Lovely, Beloved; Messiah; Olives, Mount of; Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Acceptance; Alms; Authority of Christ; Body (2); Character; Claims (of Christ); Condemnation (2); Consciousness; Day of Judgment; Doctrines; Eternal Fire (2); Eternal Life (2); Guilt (2); Heart; Humanity of Christ; Imagination; Judgment; Man (2); Matthew, Gospel According to; Mental Characteristics; Merit; Parousia (2); Preaching Christ; Quotations (2); Religious Experience; Resurrection of the Dead; Righteous, Righteousness; Sanctify, Sanctification; Social Life; Socialism; Soul; Sympathy; Tares ; Wealth (2); Morrish Bible Dictionary - Matthew, Gospel by; Sheep; The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Judge; People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible; Judgment the day of; Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Fire; Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Judgment; Justice;

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth; International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Hunger; Punishment, Everlasting;

Devotionals:

- Chip Shots from the Ruff of Life - Devotion for October 7; Every Day Light - Devotion for February 18;

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Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat; I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink;

King James Version (1611)
For I was an hungred, and yee gaue me no meat: I was thirstie, and ye gaue me no drinke:

King James Version
For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:

English Standard Version
For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink,

New American Standard Bible
for I was hungry, and you gave Me nothing to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me nothing to drink;

New Century Version
I was hungry, and you gave me nothing to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me nothing to drink.

Amplified Bible
for I was hungry, and you gave Me nothing to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me nothing to drink;

Legacy Standard Bible
for I was hungry, and you gave Me nothing to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me nothing to drink;

Berean Standard Bible
For I was hungry and you gave Me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me nothing to drink,

Contemporary English Version
I was hungry, but you did not give me anything to eat, and I was thirsty, but you did not give me anything to drink.

Complete Jewish Bible
For I was hungry and you gave me no food, thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink,

Darby Translation
for I hungered, and ye gave me not to eat; I thirsted, and ye gave me not to drink;

Easy-to-Read Version
You must go away because when I was hungry, you gave me nothing to eat. When I was thirsty, you gave me nothing to drink.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For I was an hungred, and ye gaue me no meate: I thirsted, and ye gaue me no drinke:

George Lamsa Translation
For I was hungry, and you did not give me to eat; I was thirsty, and you did not give me to drink;

Good News Translation
I was hungry but you would not feed me, thirsty but you would not give me a drink;

Lexham English Bible
For I was hungry and you did not give me anything to eat, I was thirsty and you did not give me anything to drink,

Literal Translation
For I hungered, and you did not give Me a thing to eat. I thirsted and you did not give Me a thing to drink;

American Standard Version
for I was hungry, and ye did not give me to eat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink;

Bible in Basic English
For I was in need of food, and you gave it not to me; I was in need of drink, and you gave it not to me:

Hebrew Names Version
for I was hungry, and you didn't give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink;

International Standard Version
For I was hungry, and you gave me nothing to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me nothing to drink.

Etheridge Translation
For I was hungry and you gave me not to eat; and I thirsted, but you made me not to drink;

Murdock Translation
For I was hungry, and ye gave me no food; and I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For I was an hungred, and ye gaue me no meate: I was thirstie, and ye gaue me no drynke.

English Revised Version
for I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:

World English Bible
for I was hungry, and you didn't give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink;

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For I was hungry, and ye gave me no meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:

Weymouth's New Testament
For when I was hungry, you gave me nothing to eat; when thirsty, you gave me nothing to drink;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For Y hungride, and ye yauen not me to ete; Y thristide, and ye yauen not me to drynke;

Update Bible Version
for I was hungry, and you didn't give me to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink;

Webster's Bible Translation
For I was hungry, and ye gave me no food: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:

New English Translation
For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink.

New King James Version
for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink;

New Living Translation
For I was hungry, and you didn't feed me. I was thirsty, and you didn't give me a drink.

New Life Bible
For I was hungry but you did not give Me food to eat. I was thirsty but you did not give Me water to drink.

New Revised Standard
for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For I hungered, and ye gave me not to eat, and I was thirsty, and ye gave me not to drink,

Douay-Rheims Bible
For I was hungry and you gave me not to eat: I was thirsty and you gave me not to drink.

Revised Standard Version
for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink,

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For I was an hungred and ye gave me no meate. I thursted and ye gave me no drinke.

Young's Literal Translation
for I did hunger, and ye gave me not to eat; I did thirst, and ye gave me not to drink;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For I was hogrie, and ye gaue me no meate: I was thirstye, and ye gaue me no drynke:

Mace New Testament (1729)
for I was prest with hunger, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:

Simplified Cowboy Version
I was hungry and you refused me food. I was thirsty and you laughed.

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Contextual Overview
³¹ "But when the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on His glorious throne. ³² "All the nations will be gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats; ³³ and He will put the sheep on His right, and the goats on the left. ³⁴ "Then the King will say to those on His right, 'Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. ³⁵ 'For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in; ³⁶ naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me.' ³⁷ "Then the righteous will answer Him, 'Lord, when did we see You hungry, and feed You, or thirsty, and give You something to drink? ³⁸ 'And when did we see You a stranger, and invite You in, or naked, and clothe You? ³⁹ 'When did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?' ⁴⁰ "The King will answer and say to them, 'Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.'
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Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Matthew 25:35, Matthew 10:37, Matthew 10:38, Matthew 12:30, Amos 6:6, John 5:23, John 8:42-44, John 14:21, 1 Corinthians 16:22, 2 Thessalonians 1:8, James 2:15-24, 1 John 3:14-17, 1 John 4:20

Reciprocal: Job 22:7 - not given Matthew 26:11 - ye have James 2:16 - one
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Gill's Notes on the Bible

For I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat,.... Hence it appears, that these were such as dwelt among Christians, and professed the Christian name, and yet disregarded the poor members of Christ in distress, when it was in the power of their hands to help them; but when they were hungry and ready to starve for want of food, did not communicate to them for Christ's sake; which showed I that they had no true faith in him, and love to him, and therefore are justly condemned by him; whereas such who never knew Christ, nor any of his people, or any obligation they were under to regard any for Christ's sake, these will never be condemned for the non-performance of these things:

I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink; as not the least morsel of bread to eat, so not so much as a cup of cold water to drink; which with what follows, are manifest tokens and evidences, that they did not belong to Christ, were not true believers in him, nor had they any real love to him: the grace of God was not in them, and therefore had neither right unto, nor meetness for, the kingdom of heaven; but were righteously banished from the presence of the Lord, and sent to dwell among everlasting burnings; for righteous it was, that such as they who would not show any love to him here, should not dwell with him for ever hereafter.
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Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Matthew 25:42. I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat — I put it in your power to do good, and ye would not. A variety of occasions offered themselves to you, but ye neglected them all, so that my blessings in your hands, not being improved, according to my order, became a curse to you.
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Matthew 25:42

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