Sentences with phrase «cup of cold water because»

I didn't add the 1/4 cup of cold water because i felt it didn't need it.

The third saying of the group (10:42) supports this interpretation but raises another question: «And whoever gives to one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.»

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The older we get, the more we value the kind, the merciful, the compassionate, because the more we realise that most of us, almost all of us, are getting rather lonely and tired, and we need a cup of cold water and a bit of grace, and dignity, and kindness clears the air.

Jesus teaches in Matthew 10:40 - 42 that if we receive prophets and teachers and even do something small like give cups of cold water, then we will receive reward and praise from Jesus because it was as if we were doing these things to Him.

But because they get too literal with the Parable of the Talents, they see this patron as a cruel human who wants to exploit the poor through his other servants, and the unprofitable servant who refuses to do so is the one we should give a cup of cold water to in the next parable, the Sheep and the Goats.