rs quotes 2 Flashcards
Matthew 20:21
‘If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me…’
James 2:17
‘Faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead’
Matthew 20:24
‘It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God’
John 14:2
‘My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?’
John 13:34
‘A new command I give you: love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another’
(St Paul) 1 Corinthians 15:17
‘If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins’
Matthew 7:7
‘Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you’
Job 1:21
‘The Lord gives and the Lord takes away’
Matthew 5:3-10 (The Beatitudes/Sermon on the Mount)
‘Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy’
‘Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God’
Matthew 25:40
‘Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me’
Matthew 25:46
‘Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life’
Proverbs 14:31 and Proverbs 19:17
‘Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honours Him’
‘Kindness to the poor is a loan to the Lord, and He will repay the lender’
Matthew 26:52
‘‘Put your sword back in its place’, Jesus said to him, ‘for all who draw the sword will die by the sword’’
Matthew 10:34
‘Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword’
