19 Bible Verses about Afflicted, Duty To Them

Peter, therefore, was kept in the prison; but, prayer, was, earnestly, being made by the assembly, unto God, concerning him.

These, indeed, out of love, knowing that, for the defence of the glad-message, I am set;

Sick, is any among you? Let him call unto him the elders of the assembly, and let them pray for him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; - And, the prayer of faith, shall save the exhausted one, and the Lord will raise him up, and, if he have committed, sins, it shall be forgiven him. Be openly confessing, therefore, one to another, your sins, and be praying in each other's behalf, - that ye may be healed. Much availeth, the supplication of a righteous man, when it is energised:

Rejoice with them that rejoice, weep with them that weep:

One another's burdens, be ye bearing, and, so, fill up the law of the Christ.

The despairing, from his friend, should have lovingkindness, or, the reverence of the Almighty, he may forsake.

Bear in mind them who are in bonds, as having become jointly bound, - them who are suffering ill-treatment, as being yourselves also in the body.

Religious observance, pure and undefiled with our God and Father, is, this - to be visiting orphans and widows in their affliction, unspotted, to keep, himself, from the world.

I could make you determined, by my mouth, and then my lip-solace should restrain you.

I chose out their way, and sat chief, - and abode, as king, in an army, as one who, to mourners, giveth comfort.

Who encourageth us in all our tribulation, to the end we may be able to encourage them who are in any tribulation - through means of the encouragement wherewith we, ourselves, are encouraged by God.

So then, be consoling one another with these words.

If I saw one perishing for lack of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

And shalt let thine own soul a go out to the hungry, And the soul of the oppressed, thou shalt satisfy, Then shall break forth in darkness thy light, And thy thick darkness, become as the splendour of noon;

Nevertheless, nobly, have ye done, in taking fellowship with me in my tribulation.

In noble works, being well-attested; - if she hath nourished children, if she hath shewn hospitality, if, saints feet, she hath washed, if, them who were in tribulation, she hath succoured, if, in every good, work she hath followed on:

Vindicate the weak and the fatherless, The oppressed and the poor, see righted;

Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, neither crush thou the oppressed in the gate;

Give strong drink, to him that is perishing, and wine, to such as are embittered in soul: