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New American Standard Bible

Matthew 25:38

'And when did we see You as a stranger, and invite You in, or naked, and clothe You?

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflicted;   Aliens;   Beneficence;   Commandments;   Duty;   Hospitality;   Humility;   Jesus, the Christ;   Jesus Continued;   Judgment;   Liberality;   Love;   Neighbor;   Opportunity;   Prisoners;   Reward;   Unfaithfulness;   Works;   Scofield Reference Index - Day (of Destruction);   Thompson Chain Reference - Service;   Unrealized Service;   The Topic Concordance - Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ;   Eternal Life;   Hell;   Help;   Inheritance;   Judgment;   Kingdom of God;   Punishment;   Separation;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Judgment, the;   Works, Good;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Hospitality;   Judgment;   Marriage;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Church;   Freedom;   Hospitality;   Judgment;   Mercy;   Poor;   Servant;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Animals;   Ethics;   Foreigner;   Hell;   Hospitality;   Immortality;   Jesus Christ;   Judgment, Day of;   Kingdom of God;   Love;   Reward;   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;   Neighbor;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Love, Lover, Lovely, Beloved;   Messiah;   Olives, Mount of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Acceptance;   Alms;   Character;   Claims (of Christ);   Complacency;   Consciousness;   Day of Judgment;   Doctrines;   Eternal Life (2);   Guilt (2);   Heart;   Humanity of Christ;   Imagination;   Judgment;   Love (2);   Man (2);   Matthew, Gospel According to;   Merit;   Parousia (2);   Preaching Christ;   Quotations (2);   Religious Experience;   Resurrection of the Dead;   Reward (2);   Righteous, Righteousness;   Sanctify, Sanctification;   Socialism;   Soul;   Sympathy;   Tares ;   Wealth (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Matthew, Gospel by;   Sheep;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Hospitality;   Judge;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Judgment the day of;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Judgment;   Justice;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Punishment, Everlasting;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Charity and Charitable Institutions;  

Devotionals:

- Chip Shots from the Ruff of Life - Devotion for October 7;   Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for June 20;   Every Day Light - Devotion for February 18;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When did we see you a stranger and take you in, or without clothes and clothe you?
King James Version (1611)
When saw wee thee a stranger, and tooke thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
King James Version
When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
English Standard Version
And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you?
New Century Version
When did we see you alone and away from home and invite you into our house? When did we see you without clothes and give you something to wear?
Amplified Bible
'And when did we see You as a stranger, and invite You in, or naked, and clothe You?
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'And when did we see You a stranger, and invite You in, or naked, and clothe You?
Legacy Standard Bible
And when did we see You a stranger, and invite You in, or naked, and clothe You?
Berean Standard Bible
When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You?
Contemporary English Version
When did we welcome you as a stranger or give you clothes to wear
Complete Jewish Bible
When did we see you a stranger and make you our guest, or needing clothes and provide them?
Darby Translation
and when saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in; or naked, and clothed thee?
Easy-to-Read Version
When did we see you with no place to stay and welcome you into our home? When did we see you without clothes and give you something to wear?
Geneva Bible (1587)
And when sawe we thee a stranger, and tooke thee in vnto vs? or naked, & clothed thee?
George Lamsa Translation
And when did we see you a stranger, and took you in? Or that you were naked, and covered you?
Good News Translation
When did we ever see you a stranger and welcome you in our homes, or naked and clothe you?
Lexham English Bible
And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you as a guest, or naked and clothe you?
Literal Translation
And when did we see You a stranger, and took You in; or naked, and clothed You ?
American Standard Version
And when saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
Bible in Basic English
And when did we see you wandering, and take you in? or without clothing, and give it to you?
Hebrew Names Version
When did we see you as a stranger, and take you in; or naked, and clothe you?
International Standard Version
When did we see you as a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you?
Etheridge Translation
and when did we see thee a stranger, and received thee, or naked, and covered thee ?
Murdock Translation
And when saw we thee a stranger, and took thee home? or naked, and clothed thee?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
When sawe we thee harbourlesse, and toke thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
English Revised Version
And when saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
World English Bible
When did we see you as a stranger, and take you in; or naked, and clothe you?
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? Or naked, and clothed thee?
Weymouth's New Testament
When did we see Thee homeless, and give Thee a welcome? or ill-clad, and clothe Thee?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and whanne sayn we thee herborles, and we herboreden thee; or nakid, and we hiliden thee?
Update Bible Version
And when did we see you a stranger, and take you in? or naked, and clothe you?
Webster's Bible Translation
When saw we thee a stranger, and took [thee] in? or naked, and clothed [thee]?
New English Translation
When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or naked and clothe you?
New King James Version
When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You?
New Living Translation
Or a stranger and show you hospitality? Or naked and give you clothing?
New Life Bible
When did we see You a stranger and give You a room? When did we see You had no clothes and we gave You clothes?
New Revised Standard
And when was it that we saw you a stranger and welcomed you, or naked and gave you clothing?
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, when, saw we thee - a stranger, and took thee home, or naked, and clothed thee?
Douay-Rheims Bible
Or when did we see thee a stranger and took thee in? Or naked and covered thee?
Revised Standard Version
And when did we see thee a stranger and welcome thee, or naked and clothe thee?
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
when sawe we ye herbourlesse and lodged the? or naked and clothed the?
Young's Literal Translation
and when did we see thee a stranger, and we received? or naked, and we put around?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
When sawe we the herbourlesse, and lodged the? Or naked, and clothed ye?
Mace New Testament (1729)
when did we see thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
Simplified Cowboy Version
When did we give you a room or hand you a pair of batwing leggings?

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 "And all the nations will be gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one another, just as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats; 33 and He will put the sheep on His right, but 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 as a stranger, and invite You in, or naked, and clothe You?39 'And when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?' 40 "And the King will answer and say to them, 'Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it for one of the least of these brothers or sisters of Mine, you did it for Me.'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in?.... As they had never seen him hungry and thirsty, in his own person, though he was both in the days of his flesh, and were ministered to, both by angels, and by good women out of their substance; so they had never seen him a stranger, and took him into their houses; yet they had, seen him hungry and thirsty, and as a stranger in his members, and had done these good offices to him in them, and to them for his sake:

or naked, and clothed thee? for so Christ in person never was, until stripped of his raiment by the soldiers, and officers; but they had seen many of his poor saints without clothing, and had covered their nakedness.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Then shall the righteous ... - This answer is indicative of humility - a deep sense of their being unworthy such commendation. They will feel that their poor acts of kindness have come so far short of what they should have been that they have no claim to praise or reward. It is not, however, to be supposed that in the day of judgment this will be actually “said” by the righteous, but that this would be a proper expression of their feelings.


 
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