9 Bible Verses about Caring For The Sick

I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.'

Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.

For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, declares the LORD, because they have called you an outcast: 'It is Zion, for whom no one cares!'

Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise. Is anyone among you sick? 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 will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

O LORD my God, I cried to you for help, and you have healed me.

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?

But I, when they were sick-- I wore sackcloth; I afflicted myself with fasting; I prayed with head bowed on my chest.

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him. And when they saw him from a distance, they did not recognize him. And they raised their voices and wept, and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads toward heaven. And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.