KJV King James Version
Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Matthew 25:36
Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you looked after Me, I was in prison and you visited Me.’
WEB World English Bible
I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’
ASV American Standard Version
naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
naked, and ye put around me; I was infirm, and ye looked after me; in prison I was, and ye came unto me.
Surrounding context — Matthew 25
33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed [thee]? or thirsty, and gave [thee] drink?
38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took [thee] in? or naked, and clothed [thee]?
39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
γυμνὸςG1131 · gumnosnakedκαὶG2532 · kaiandπεριεβάλετέG4016 · periballōto clotheμε,G3165 · memeἠσθένησαG770 · astheneōbe weak: weakκαὶG2532 · kaiandἐπεσκέψασθέG1980 · episkeptomaito visit/care forμε,G3165 · memeἐνG1722 · enin/on/amongφυλακῇG5438 · phulakēprison/watch: prisonἤμηνG1510 · eimito beκαὶG2532 · kaiandἤλθατεG2064 · erchomaito come/goπρόςG4314 · prosto/withμε.¶G3165 · meme
Cross-references
James 1:27Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.Hebrews 13:3Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; [and] them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.2 Timothy 1:16-18The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:James 5:14-15Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:Acts 20:35I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.James 2:14-16What [doth it] profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?Hebrews 10:34For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.Luke 3:11He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.Philippians 4:10-14But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity.Acts 28:8-9And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him.Isaiah 58:7[Is it] not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?Job 31:19-20If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;Ezekiel 18:7And hath not oppressed any, [but] hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;Ezekiel 34:4The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up [that which was] broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.Matthew 25:43I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
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