19 Bible Verses about Afflicted, Duty To Them

Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.

The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:

Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders 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, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.

Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:

Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction.

Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.

Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.