Mark 9:41

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Summary

For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward.

Whosoever

Matthew 10:42

Matthew 25:40

Because

Bible References

Whosoever

And, if any one gives but a cup of cold water to one of these lowly ones because he is a disciple, I tell you that he shall assuredly not lose his reward."

And the King will reply 'I tell you, as often as you did it to one of these my Brothers, however lowly, you did it to me.'

Because

Meanwhile near the cross of Jesus were standing his mother and his mother's sister, as well as Mary the wife of Clopas and Mary of Magdala.

You, however, are not earthly but spiritual, since the Spirit of God lives within you. Unless a man has the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ;

If, for the sake of what you eat, you wound your Brother's feelings, your life has ceased to be ruled by love. Do not, by what you eat, ruin a man for whom Christ died!

But you are Christ's and Christ is God's.

But each in his proper order-Christ the first-fruits; afterwards, at his Coming, those who belong to the Christ.

You look at the outward appearance of things! Let any one, who is confident that he belongs to Christ, reflect, for himself, again upon the fact--that we belong to Christ no less than he does.

And, since you belong to Christ, it follows that you are Abraham's offspring and, under the promise, sharers in the inheritance.

And those who belong to Jesus, the Christ, have already crucified their earthly nature, with its passions and its cravings.