Afflicted, Duty Toward The

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• Acts 12:5 NT

  Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.

• Philippians 1:16 NT

  The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;

• Philippians 1:19 NT

  For I know that this will turn out to my salvation, through your prayers and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

• James 5:14-16 NT

  Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord, and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has…

• Romans 12:15 NT

  Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

• Galatians 6:2 NT

  Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

• Job 6:14 OT

  “To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

• Hebrews 13:3 NT

  Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

• James 1:27 NT

  Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

• Job 16:5 OT

  but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.

• Job 29:25 OT

  I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.

• 2 Corinthians 1:4 NT

  who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

• 1 Thessalonians 4:18 NT

  Therefore comfort one another with these words.

• Job 31:19 OT

  if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

• Job 31:20 OT

  if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;

• Isaiah 58:10 OT

  and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday;

• Philippians 4:14 NT

  However you did well that you shared in my affliction.

• 1 Timothy 5:10 NT

  being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

• Psalms 82:3 OT

  “Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

• Proverbs 22:22 OT

  Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

• Proverbs 31:5 OT

  lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.