Hebrews 13:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them: a further duty of the subjects of Christ's kingdom, is sympathy with their Christian brethren, to remember to pray for, visit, and minister all necessary refreshment to those in bonds, fettered, manacled, and imprisoned for Christ's sake and the gospel; being straitened for them, and partaking of their bonds, bearing them with them, and seeking their deliverance out of them by all just means, Matthew 25:36 Ephesians 6:19,20 Col 4:18 2 Timothy 1:16-18. And them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body; be mindful of those suffering any evil for Christ's sake and the gospel, persecuted, oppressed, or afflicted, who have not deserved any of this from man, so as to carry it suitably to them in these conditions, Hebrews 11:36-38; so feelingly, as if we were the persons in their conditions; carefully, knowing we are in bodies capable and liable to the same, and are ignorant how soon it may be our own case; conscientiously, as knowing we are members in the same body of Christ with them, and of them in particular, 1 Corinthians 12:25-27.

Hebrews 13:3

3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.