What Does the Bible Say About Protecting Others?

Romans 15:1 ESV / 17 helpful votes

We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Philippians 2:3-5 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,

1 John 3:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

John 15:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes

You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

John 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Psalm 82:3-4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”

8 Bible Verses about Protecting Others

Romans 15:1 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Philippians 2:3-5 ESV / 15 helpful votes

1 John 3:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes

John 15:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Psalm 82:3-4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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8 Bible Verses about Protecting Others

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Romans 15:1 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Philippians 2:3-5 ESV / 15 helpful votes

1 John 3:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes

John 15:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Psalm 82:3-4 ESV / 5 helpful votes