18 Bible Verses About Care
Consider the sacred pages, where the concept of care unfolds not as a mere human sentiment, but as a divine imperative, a reflection of God's own loving nature. These verses offer more than simple instruction; they provide profound revelation. To contemplate care in light of scripture is to grasp its true depth, its origin in a love that precedes all things, and its expression in the selfless actions we are called to undertake. This pursuit of scriptural understanding elevates our sense of responsibility, transforming simple kindnesses into participation in the divine work. It guides our hands and hearts in service to the eternal truth, illuminating the path of genuine compassion.
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Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.
Intentional Study: Bible Verses about Care
And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.
Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth:
Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.
And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep: for she kept them.
And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:
So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.
And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them.
Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.
Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.
If a bird’s nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:
Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?
And Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul.
Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to thy brother Amnon’s house, and dress him meat.
And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him.
And Bath–sheba went in unto the king into the chamber: and the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto the king.
And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.
These sacred utterances reveal care not as a mere sentiment, but as the very breath of the divine, the active principle animating a life consecrated. They call us beyond passive sympathy to concrete service, to a vigilance for the needs of the soul and body of our neighbor, seeing in them the image of the Creator. True care, therefore, is not a burden but a participation in God's ongoing work, a vital dimension of our response to grace. Let these verses be less a collection of maxims and more a living summons, urging us to embody divine tenderness in every gesture, every thought, every prayer. For in attending to the welfare of others, we cultivate the fertile ground of our own spiritual growth and draw nearer to the source of all compassion.