Bible Verses About Afflicted

"A friend should be kind to an unhappy man, even to one who abandons Shaddai.

when someone is brought down, you will say, 'It was pride, because [God] saves the humble.'

"Here is the sort of fast I want - releasing those unjustly bound, untying the thongs of the yoke, letting the oppressed go free, breaking every yoke,

sharing your food with the hungry, taking the homeless poor into your house, clothing the naked when you see them, fulfilling your duty to your kinsmen!"

generously offer food to the hungry and meet the needs of the person in trouble; then your light will rise in the darkness, and your gloom become like noon.

"Then the King will say to those on his right, `Come, you whom my Father has blessed, take your inheritance, the Kingdom prepared for you from the founding of the world.

For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you made me your guest,

I needed clothes and you provided them, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.'

Then the people who have done what God wants will reply, `Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?

When did we see you a stranger and make you our guest, or needing clothes and provide them?

When did we see you sick or in prison, and visit you?'

The King will say to them, `Yes! I tell you that whenever you did these things for one of the least important of these brothers of mine, you did them for me!'

"Then he will also speak to those on his left, saying, `Get away from me, you who are cursed! Go off into the fire prepared for the Adversary and his angels!

For I was hungry and you gave me no food, thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink,

a stranger and you did not welcome me, needing clothes and you did not give them to me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.'

Then they too will reply, `Lord, when did we see you hungry, thirsty, a stranger, needing clothes, sick or in prison, and not take care of you?'

And he will answer them, `Yes! I tell you that whenever you refused to do it for the least important of these people, you refused to do it for me!'

Taking up the question, Yeshua said: “A man was going down from Yerushalayim to Yericho when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him naked and beat him up, then went off, leaving him half dead.

By coincidence, a cohen was going down on that road; but when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

Likewise a Levi who reached the place and saw him also passed by on the other side.

“But a man from Shomron who was traveling came upon him; and when he saw him, he was moved with compassion.

So he went up to him, put oil and wine on his wounds and bandaged them. Then he set him on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him.

The next day, he took out two days’ wages, gave them to the innkeeper and said, ‘Look after him; and if you spend more than this, I’ll pay you back when I return.’

Of these three, which one seems to you to have become the ‘neighbor’ of the man who fell among robbers?”

He answered, “The one who showed mercy toward him.” Yeshua said to him, “You go and do as he did.”