Bible Verses about “caring for others”
The Bible contains 15 verses about caring for others across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.”
“And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”
“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.”
“Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.”
“‹A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.›”
“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”
“But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels [of compassion] from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?”
“‹By this shall all› [men] ‹know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.›”
“Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.”
“¶ He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.”
“¶ Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.”
“‹And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done› [it] ‹unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done› [it] ‹unto me.›”
“My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.”
“As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all [men], especially unto them who are of the household of faith.”
“¶ Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.”