Bible Verses About Duty Toward The Afflicted

He that taketh away mercy from his friend, forsaketh the fear of the Lord.

I would comfort you also with words, and would wag my head over you.

If I had a mind to go to them, I sat first, and when I sat as a king, with his army standing about him, yet I was a comforter of them that mourned.

If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering:

If his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep:

For lo, thy enemies have made a noise: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

Do no violence to the poor, because he is poor: and do not oppress the needy in the gate:

And lest they drink and forget judgments, and pervert the cause of the children of the poor.

When thou shalt pour out thy soul to the hungry, and shalt satisfy the afflicted soul, then shall thy light rise up in darkness, and thy darkness shall be as the noonday.

Peter therefore was kept in prison. But prayer was made without ceasing by the church unto God for him.

Rejoice with them that rejoice: weep with them that weep.

Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we also may be able to comfort them who are in all distress, by the exhortation wherewith we also are exhorted by God.

Bear ye one another's burdens: and so you shall fulfil the law of Christ.

Some out of charity, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.

For I know that this shall fall out to me unto salvation, through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

Nevertheless, you have done well in communicating to my tribulation.

Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

Having testimony for her good works, if she have brought up children, if she have received to harbour, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have ministered to them that suffer tribulation, if she have diligently followed every good work.

Remember them that are in bands, as if you were bound with them: and them that labour, as being yourselves also in the body.

Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation and to keep one's self unspotted from this world.

Is any man sick among you? Let him bring in the priests of the church and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.

And the prayer of faith shall save the sick man. And the Lord shall raise him up: and if he be in sins, they shall be forgiven him.

Confess therefore your sins one to another: and pray one for another, that you may be saved. For the continual prayer of a just man availeth much.