What does the Bible say about bearing with the weak?

My ideal heaven—the one I thought of in the long hours when death and life were fighting for victory—was one, which changed the man—one, which made the avaricious man less avaricious—the liar one who would immediately seek the truth—the drunkard one who would wish to drink from pure fountains. 

But a surprise awaited me.

Advanced spirits tell me, when at times they would look into the mystery of higher spheres, they are called on by a voice, not to be disregarded, to visit earth life and help free some suffering one from the old body. 

So, when we would feel wise and begin to know spirit life, we are called again to look into the old lessons of earth life. 

Our chief growth depends on how we receive the lessons that are taught us through our own suffering—or our sympathy with the sufferings of others. 

It is a part of the great plan that the strong should care for the weak. 

When we see great troubles hovering over you there, though we cannot avert them, we can lighten their fall, and our greatest growth comes from the most efficient work done to those who are still in form.

—Spirit Samuel Bowles