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D&C 42:38 · Matthew 25:40

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Doctrine and Covenants D&C 42:38
"For inasmuch as ye do it unto the least of these, ye do it unto me."
New Testament Matthew 25:40
"Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."

Shared words: the least of these

Divergences: the revelation's present 'ye do it unto the least of these' against the judgment scene's perfect 'ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren'; the revelation drops 'one of' and 'my brethren'. The two verses do different work - Matthew's is the King's verdict at a judgment, the revelation's is the stated ground of a property commandment. 'the least of these' stands at four distinct frozen verses in the corpus: these two, Matthew 25:45, and D&C 88:47, where the sense is unrelated.

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