care for the sick
What does the Bible say about care for the sick? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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8Cure the infirm, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You have received freely, so give freely.
13Is any of you sad? Let him pray. Is he even-tempered? Let him sing psalms. 14Is anyone ill among you? Let him bring in the priests of the Church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15And a prayer of faith will save the infirm, and the Lord will alleviate him. And if he has sins, these will be forgiven him. 16Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be saved. For the unremitting prayer of a just person prevails over many things.
31But when the Son of man will have arrived in his majesty, and all the Angels with him, then he will sit upon the seat of his majesty. 32And all the nations shall be gathered together before him. And he shall separate them from one another, just as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33And he shall station the sheep, indeed, on his right, but the goats on his left. 34Then the King shall say to those who will be on his right: ‘Come, you blessed of my Father. Possess the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 35For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in; 36naked, and you covered me; sick, and you visited me; I was in prison, and you came to me.’
40And in response, the King shall say to them, ‘Amen I say to you, whenever you did this for one of these, the least of my brothers, you did it for me.’
14Is anyone ill among you? Let him bring in the priests of the Church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
27This is religion, clean and undefiled before God the Father: to visit orphans and widows in their tribulations, and to keep yourself immaculate, apart from this age.
17Whoever possesses the goods of this world, and sees his brother to be in need, and yet closes his heart to him: in what way does the love of God abide in him? 18My little sons, let us not love in words only, but in works and in truth.
3O Lord my God, I have cried out to you, and you have healed me.
1But we who are stronger must bear with the feebleness of the weak, and not so as to please ourselves.
3He heals the contrite of heart, and he binds up their sorrows.