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James 1:27
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.
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Hebrews 13:3
Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill- treated, since you are also in the body.
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James 5:14-15
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 committed sins, he will be forgiven.
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James 2:14-16
What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,and one of you tells them,“ Go in peace. Be warmed and filled;” yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it?
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2 Timothy 1 16-2 Timothy 1 18
May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently and found me( the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.
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Acts 20:35
In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said,‘ It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
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Hebrews 10:34
For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.
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Acts 28:8-9
The father of Publius lay sick of fever and dysentery. Paul entered in to him, prayed, and laying his hands on him, healed him.Then when this was done, the rest also who had diseases in the island came and were cured.
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Job 31:19-20
if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;
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Ezekiel 18:7
and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;
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Matthew 25:43
I was a stranger, and you didn’t take me in; naked, and you didn’t clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’
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Philippians 4:10-14
But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length you have revived your thought for me; in which you did indeed take thought, but you lacked opportunity.Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.However you did well that you shared in my affliction.
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Isaiah 58:7
Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?
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Ezekiel 34:4
You haven’t strengthened the diseased. You haven’t healed that which was sick. You haven’t bound up that which was broken. You haven’t brought back that which was driven away. You haven’t sought that which was lost, but you have ruled over them with force and with rigor.
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Luke 3:11
He answered them,“ He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”
