Bible Verses About Duty Toward The Afflicted

To a despiser of his friends is shame, And the fear of the Mighty he forsaketh.

I might harden you with my mouth, And the moving of my lips might be sparing.

I choose their way, and sit head, And I dwell as a king in a troop, When mourners he doth comfort.

If I see any perishing without clothing, And there is no covering to the needy,

If his loins have not blessed me, And from the fleece of my sheep He doth not warm himself,

Judge ye the weak and fatherless, The afflicted and the poor declare righteous.

Rob not the poor because he is poor, And bruise not the afflicted in the gate.

Lest he drink, and forget the decree, And change the judgment of any of the sons of affliction.

And dost bring out to the hungry thy soul, And the afflicted soul dost satisfy, Then risen in the darkness hath thy light, And thy thick darkness is as noon.

Peter, therefore, indeed, was kept in the prison, and fervent prayer was being made by the assembly unto God for him,

to rejoice with the rejoicing, and to weep with the weeping,

who is comforting us in all our tribulation, for our being able to comfort those in any tribulation through the comfort with which we are comforted ourselves by God;

of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,

the one, indeed, of rivalry the Christ do proclaim, not purely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds,

For I have known that this shall fall out to me for salvation, through your supplication, and the supply of the Spirit of Christ Jesus,

but ye did well, having communicated with my tribulation;

so, then, comfort ye one another in these words.

in good works being testified to: if she brought up children, if she entertained strangers, if saints' feet she washed, if those in tribulation she relieved, if every good work she followed after;

be mindful of those in bonds, as having been bound with them, of those maltreated, as also yourselves being in the body;

religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation--unspotted to keep himself from the world.

is any infirm among you? let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil, in the name of the Lord,

and the prayer of the faith shall save the distressed one, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if sins he may have committed, they shall be forgiven to him.

Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;