Topic
Afflicted, Duty toward the
21 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1897 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Job 6:14Torrey To pity them
To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
- Job 16:5Torrey To comfort them
But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
- Job 29:25Torrey To comfort them
I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.
- Job 31:19Torrey To relieve them
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
- Job 31:20Torrey To relieve them
If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
- Psalms 82:3Torrey To protect them
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
- Proverbs 22:22Torrey To protect them
Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
- Proverbs 31:5Torrey To protect them
Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
- Isaiah 58:10Torrey To relieve them
And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:
- Acts 12:5Torrey To pray for them
Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.
- Romans 12:15Torrey To sympathise with them
Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
- 2 Corinthians 1:4Torrey To comfort them
Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
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- Galatians 6:2 Torrey To sympathise with them
- Philippians 1:16 Torrey To pray for them
- Philippians 1:19 Torrey To pray for them
- Philippians 4:14 Torrey To relieve them
- 1 Thessalonians 4:18 Torrey To comfort them
- 1 Timothy 5:10 Torrey To relieve them
- Hebrews 13:3 Torrey To bear them in mind
- James 1:27 Torrey To visit them
- James 5:14–16 Torrey To pray for them
In the topical indexes
Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897) · 21 references, grouped by sub-topic
- To pray for them Ac 12:5; Php 1:16,19; Jas 5:14-16
- To sympathise with them Ro 12:15; Ga 6:2
- To pity them Job 6:14
- To bear them in mind Heb 13:3
- To visit them Jas 1:27
- To comfort them Job 16:5; 29:25; 2Co 1:4; 1Th 4:18
- To relieve them Job 31:19,20; Isa 58:10; Php 4:14; 1Ti 5:10
- To protect them Ps 82:3; Pr 22:22; 31:5
Texts: Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.