19 Bible Verses about Afflicted, Duty To Them

Then was Peter kept in prison. But prayer was made without ceasing of the congregation unto God for him.

The one part preacheth Christ of strife, and not purely, supposing to add more adversity to my bonds.

If any be diseased among you, let him call for the elders of the congregation, and let them pray over him, and anoint 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. Knowledge your faults one to another: and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man availeth much, if it be fervent.

Be merry with them that are merry. Weep with them that weep.

Bear ye one another's burden; and so fulfill the law of Christ.

like as if one withdrew a good deed from his friend, and forsook the fear of the Almighty God?

Remember them that are in bonds, even as though ye were bound with them. Be mindful of them which are in adversity, as ye which are yet in your bodies.

Pure devotion, and undefiled before God the father, is this: To visit the friendless, and widows in their adversity, and to keep himself unspotted of the world.

I should comfort you with my mouth, and release your pain with the talking of my lips.

When I agreed unto their way, I was the chief, and sat as a king among his servants; and when they were in heaviness, I was their comforter.

which comforteth us in all our tribulation, insomuch that we are able to comfort them which are troubled, in whatsoever tribulation it be, with the same comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

Where-fore comfort yourselves one another with these words.

Have I seen any man perish through nakedness and want of clothing? Or any poor man for lack of raiment,

Yea If thou layest away thy burdens, and holdest thy fingers, and ceasest from blasphemous talking; if thou hast compassion upon the hungry, and refreshest the troubled soul: Then shall thy light spring out in the darkness, and thy darkness shall be as the noon day.

Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye bare part with me in my tribulation.

and well reported of in good works: if she have nourished children, if she have been liberal to strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have ministered unto them which were in adversity, if she were continually given unto all manner good works.

Defend the poor and fatherless, see that such as be in need and necessity have right.

See that thou rob not the poor because he is weak, and oppress not the simple in judgment;

Give strong drink unto such as are condemned to death, and wine unto those that mourn: