Bible Verses About Compassion
Scriptures on showing mercy and tender-heartedness.
To see others through the eyes of the Savior is to move beyond mere sympathy into a deep, sacrificial love. Jesus was repeatedly moved with a tender-heartedness that led to healing, feeding, and restorative action. By putting on a heart of kindness, we become the hands and feet of Christ to a world that is desperately hurting. Allow His mercy to flow through you, touching those who feel forgotten or cast aside.
Key Passages
"And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you."
"With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;"
"We love him, because he first loved us."
"And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;"
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"Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;"
"¶ But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd."
"Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:"
"Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful."
"The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works."
"And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things."
"Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:"
"He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?"
"For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion."
"Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God."
"Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ."
"But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?"
"And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick."
"And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart."
"Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him."
"¶ It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness."
"But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy."
"Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt."
"And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him,I will; be thou clean."
"But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath."
"But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth."
"He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: the LORD is gracious and full of compassion."
"Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous."
"The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy."
"For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance."
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