Quotes related to Matthew 25:40
How often do you see people as obstacles to ministry rather than the objects of it?
— Paul David Tripp
Now, if these people are not the focus and object of ministry, then what is ministry?
— Paul David Tripp
And he wanted more than anything else, deeply and compassionately, to be of help; and he could be of help in this age, and was of help, because artist and philosopher as well as theologian, he cared for culture as well as for Christ.6
— Paul Tillich
But Jacob replied, “My lord knows that the children are frail, and I must care for sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard for even a day, all the animals will die.
— Genesis 33:13
You must not curse the deaf or place a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God. I am the LORD.
— Leviticus 19:14
For there will never cease to be poor in the land; that is why I am commanding you to open wide your hand to your brother and to the poor and needy in your land.
— Deuteronomy 15:11
‘Cursed is he who lets a blind man wander in the road.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
— Deuteronomy 27:18
Remember me favorably, O my God, for all that I have done for this people.
— Nehemiah 5:19
Yet no one stretches out his hand to a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress.
— Job 30:24
He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the dump
— Psalm 113:7
Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.
— Proverbs 14:31
Kindness to the poor is a loan to the LORD, and He will repay the lender.
— Proverbs 19:17