11 Bible Verses about Afflicted, Duty To Them

So Peter was kept in prison, but meanwhile the prayers of the Church were being earnestly offered to God on his behalf.

The latter do it from love for me, knowing that I have been appointed to plead the cause of the Good News.

If any one of you is ill, let him send for the Officers of the Church, and let them pray over him, after anointing him with oil in the name of the lord. The prayer offered in faith will save the man who is sick, and the Lord will raise him from his bed; and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be cured. Great is the power of a good man's fervent prayer.

Rejoice with those who are rejoicing, and weep with those who are weeping.

Bear one another's burdens, and so carry out the Law of the Christ.

Remember the prisoners, as if you were their fellow-prisoners, and the oppressed, not forgetting that you also are still in the body.

That religious observance which is pure and spotless in the eyes of God our Father is this--to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself uncontaminated by the world.

Who consoles us in all our troubles, so that we may be able to console those who are in any trouble with the consolation that we ourselves receive from him.

Therefore, comfort one another with what I have told you.

Yet you have acted nobly in sharing my troubles.

and be well spoken of for her kind actions. She should have brought up children, have shown hospitality to strangers, have washed the feet of her fellow Christians, have relieved those who were in distress, and devoted herself to every kind of good action.