What Does the Bible Say About Visiting The Sick And The Elderly?

James 1:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

James 5:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Isaiah 46:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save.

Leviticus 19:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.

1 Timothy 5:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.

1 Timothy 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers,

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 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. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Matthew 25:40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

Matthew 25:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’

Psalm 71:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent.

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

12 Bible Verses about Visiting The Sick And The Elderly

James 1:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

James 5:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Isaiah 46:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Leviticus 19:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 25:40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 25:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 71:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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12 Bible Verses about Visiting The Sick And The Elderly

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James 1:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

James 5:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Isaiah 46:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Leviticus 19:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 25:40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 25:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 71:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes