What Does the Bible Say About Caring For One Another?

1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

Matthew 9:36 ESV / 9 helpful votes

When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

Matthew 14:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes

When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them and healed their sick.

Hebrews 3:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

James 5:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

Hebrews 10:25 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

Hebrews 10:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,

John 13:35 ESV / 5 helpful votes

By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

1 Peter 1:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,

Romans 12:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.

Romans 12:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

So we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

Deuteronomy 15:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’

1 John 4:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

1 John 4:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

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.

Galatians 5:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

Romans 15:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.

Romans 13:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

John 15:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

John 13:34 ESV / 3 helpful votes

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

1 John 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

Ephesians 5:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart,

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

1 Timothy 3:1-7 ESV / 1 helpful vote

The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church? ...

Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

1 Corinthians 12:1-31 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led. Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit. Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; ...

Romans 15:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another.

Romans 12:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

Romans 12:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. ...

Acts 2:42 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.

34 Bible Verses about Caring For One Another

1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Matthew 9:36 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Matthew 14:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Hebrews 3:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

James 5:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Hebrews 10:25 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Hebrews 10:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes

John 13:35 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Peter 1:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 12:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 12:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 15:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 4:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 4:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

James 5:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Galatians 5:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 15:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 13:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 15:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 13:34 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:1-7 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 12:1-31 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 15:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 12:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 12:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Acts 2:42 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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34 Bible Verses about Caring For One Another

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1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Matthew 9:36 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Matthew 14:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Hebrews 3:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

James 5:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Hebrews 10:25 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Hebrews 10:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes

John 13:35 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Peter 1:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 12:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 12:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 15:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 4:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 4:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

James 5:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Galatians 5:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 15:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 13:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 15:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 13:34 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:1-7 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 12:1-31 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 15:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 12:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 12:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Acts 2:42 ESV / 1 helpful vote