Biblical Concept: Care

Findings:

God cares for Believers in Christ.

Apostles had tender care for Believers at Thessalonica.

Covenant and Divine care.

Take care against reverting.

Overseers take care of the Church.

Take care against sins.

Inclusive care: Believer for Believer.

Take care of the spiritually weak.

God cares for His sheep Israel.

Levites cared for the tabernacle.

Care as part of restitution for physical violence.

God will surely take care of the sons of Israel.

God will surely take care of Joseph’s brothers.

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^NAS Genesis 30:35 So he removed on that day the striped and spotted male goats and all the speckled and spotted female goats, every one with white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the care of his sons.

¹³ But he said to him, "My lord knows that the children are frail and that the flocks and herds which are nursing are a care to me. And if they are driven hard one day, all the flocks will die.

^NAS Genesis 40:4 And the captain of the bodyguard put Joseph in charge of them, and he took care of them; and they were in confinement for some time.

^NAS Genesis 42:37 Then Reuben spoke to his father, saying, "You may put my two sons to death if I do not bring him back to you; put him in my care, and I will return him to you."

^NAS Genesis 50:24 And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will surely take care of you, and bring you up from this land to the land which He promised on oath to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob." (God will surely take care of Joseph’s brothers.)

²⁵ Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, "God will surely take care of you, and you shall carry my bones up from here." (God will surely take care of the sons of Israel.)

^NAS Exodus 13:19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made the sons of Israel solemnly swear, saying, "God shall surely take care of you; and you shall carry my bones from here with you." (God will surely take care of the sons of Israel.)

^NAS Exodus 21:19 if he gets up and walks around outside on his staff, then he who struck him shall go unpunished; he shall only pay for his loss of time, and shall take care of him until he is completely healed. (Care as part of restitution for physical violence.)

^NAS Numbers 1:50 "But you shall appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all its furnishings and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings, and they shall take care of it; they shall also camp around the tabernacle. (Levites cared for the tabernacle.)

^NAS Judges 19:20 And the old man said, "Peace to you. Only let me take care of all your needs; however, do not spend the night in the open square." (No comment on the vile passage contents.)

^NAS 1 Samuel 17:22 Then David left his baggage in the care of the baggage keeper, and ran to the battle line and entered in order to greet his brothers.

^NAS 2 Samuel 12:8 'I also gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your care, and I gave you the house of Israel and Judah; and if that had been too little, I would have added to you many more things like these!

^NAS 2 Samuel 18:3 But the people said, "You should not go out; for if we indeed flee, they will not care about us, even if half of us die, they will not care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us; therefore now it is better that you be ready to help us from the city."

^NAS 1 Kings 14:27 So King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place, and committed them to the care of the commanders of the guard who guarded the doorway of the king's house.

^NAS 2 Kings 4:13 And he said to him, "Say now to her, 'Behold, you have been careful for us with all this care; what can I do for you? Would you be spoken for to the king or to the captain of the army?'" And she answered, "I live among my own people."

^NAS 1 Chronicles 26:28 And all that Samuel the seer had dedicated and Saul the son of Kish, Abner the son of Ner and Joab the son of Zeruiah, everyone who had dedicated anything, all of this was in the care of Shelomoth and his relatives.

^NAS 1 Chronicles 29:8 And whoever possessed precious stones gave them to the treasury of the house of the LORD, in care of Jehiel the Gershonite.

^NAS 2 Chronicles 12:10 Then King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place, and committed them to the care of the commanders of the guard who guarded the door of the king's house.

^NAS Ezra 5:8 "Let it be known to the king, that we have gone to the province of Judah, to the house of the great God, which is being built with huge stones, and beams are being laid in the walls; and this work is going on with great care and is succeeding in their hands.

^NAS Esther 2:20 Esther had not yet made known her kindred or her people, even as Mordecai had commanded her, for Esther did what Mordecai told her as she had done when under his care.

^NAS Job 3:4 "May that day be darkness; Let not God above care for it, Nor light shine on it.

^NAS Job 10:12 'Thou hast granted me life and lovingkindness; And Thy care has preserved my spirit.

^NAS Job 21:21 "For what does he care for his household after him, When the number of his months is cut off?

^NAS Psalm 8:4 What is man, that Thou dost take thought of him? And the son of man, that Thou dost care for him?

^NAS Psalm 78:71 From the care of the ewes with suckling lambs He brought him, To shepherd Jacob His people, And Israel His inheritance.

^NAS Psalm 80:14 O God of hosts, turn again now, we beseech Thee; Look down from heaven and see, and take care of this vine,

^NAS Song of Solomon 1:6 "Do not stare at me because I am swarthy, For the sun has burned me. My mother's sons were angry with me; They made me caretaker of the vineyards, But I have not taken care of my own vineyard.

^NAS Song of Solomon 8:12 "My very own vineyard is at my disposal; The thousand shekels are for you, Solomon, And two hundred are for those who take care of its fruit."

^NAS Isaiah 7:4 and say to him, 'Take care, and be calm, have no fear and do not be fainthearted because of these two stubs of smoldering firebrands, on account of the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram, and the son of Remaliah.

^NAS Ezekiel 34:12 "As a shepherd cares for his herd in the day when he is among his scattered sheep, so I will care for My sheep and will deliver them from all the places to which they were scattered on a cloudy and gloomy day. (God cares for His sheep Israel.)

^NAS Zephaniah 2:7 And the coast will be For the remnant of the house of Judah, They will pasture on it. In the houses of Ashkelon they will lie down at evening; For the LORD their God will care for them And restore their fortune. (God cares for His sheep Israel.)

^NAS Zechariah 11:16 "For behold, I am going to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for the perishing, seek the scattered, heal the broken, or sustain the one standing, but will devour the flesh of the fat sheep and tear off their hoofs.

^NAS Matthew 6:34 "Therefore do not be anxious for tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

^NAS Matthew 11:14 "And if you care to accept it, he himself is Elijah, who was to come.

^NAS Matthew 25:44 "Then they themselves also will answer, saying, 'Lord, when did we see You hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not take care of You?'

^NAS Mark 4:24 And He was saying to them, "Take care what you listen to. By your standard of measure it shall be measured to you; and more shall be given you besides.

³⁸ And He Himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they awoke Him and said to Him, "Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?"

^NAS Luke 8:18 "Therefore take care how you listen; for whoever has, to him shall more be given; and whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has shall be taken away from him."

^NAS Luke 10:34 and came to him, and bandaged up his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them; and he put him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

³⁵ "And on the next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper and said, 'Take care of him; and whatever more you spend, when I return, I will repay you.'

⁴⁰ But Martha was distracted with all her preparations; and she came up to Him, and said, "Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to do all the serving alone? Then tell her to help me."

^NAS Acts 5:35 And he said to them, "Men of Israel, take care what you propose to do with these men.

^NAS Acts 27:3 And the next day we put in at Sidon; and Julius treated Paul with consideration and allowed him to go to his friends and receive care.

^NAS 1 Corinthians 8:9 But take care lest this liberty of yours somehow become a stumbling block to the weak. (Take care of the spiritually weak.)

^NAS 1 Corinthians 12:25 that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another. (Inclusive care: Believer for Believer.)

^NAS Galatians 5:15 But if you bite and devour one another, take care lest you be consumed by one another. (Take care against sins.)

^NAS 1 Timothy 3:5 (but if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?); [Overseers take care of the Church.]

^NAS Hebrews 3:12 Take care, brethren, lest there should be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart, in falling away from the living God. (Take care against reverting.)

^NAS Hebrews 8:9 Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers On the day when I took them by the hand To lead them out of the land of Egypt; For they did not continue in My covenant, And I did not care for them, says the Lord. (Covenant and Divine care.)

^NAS Deuteronomy 32:10 "He found him in a desert land, And in the howling waste of a wilderness; He encircled him, He cared for him, He guarded him as the pupil of His eye.

^NAS 2 Samuel 19:24 Then Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither cared for his feet, nor trimmed his mustache, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace.

^NAS Hosea 13:5 I cared for you in the wilderness, In the land of drought.

^NAS 2 Corinthians 3:3 being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of human hearts. (Apostles cared for Christians at Corinth.)

^NAS Deuteronomy 11:12 a land for which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning even to the end of the year.

^NAS Psalm 142:4 Look to the right and see; For there is no one who regards me; There is no escape for me; No one cares for my soul.

^NAS Proverbs 27:18 He who tends the fig tree will eat its fruit; And he who cares for his master will be honored.

^NAS Jeremiah 30:17 'For I will restore you to health And I will heal you of your wounds,' declares the LORD, 'Because they have called you an outcast, saying: "It is Zion; no one cares for her."'

^NAS Ezekiel 34:12 "As a shepherd cares for his herd in the day when he is among his scattered sheep, so I will care for My sheep and will deliver them from all the places to which they were scattered on a cloudy and gloomy day.

^NAS 1 Thessalonians 2:7 But we proved to be gentle among you, as a nursing mother tenderly cares for her own children. (Apostles had tender care for Believers at Thessalonica.)

^NAS 1 Peter 5:7 casting all your anxiety upon Him, because He cares for you. (1 Peter 5:6 ⁶ Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time,) (God cares for Believers in Christ.)

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