14 Bible Verses about Heartlessness
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He who lacks {sense} belittles his neighbor, but a person of intelligence will remain silent.
Then Yahweh said to Cain, "Where [is] Abel your brother?" And he said, "I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?"
But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came up [and] asked him, saying, "Send her away, because she is crying out after us!"
Now by coincidence a certain priest was going down on that road, and [when he] saw him, he passed by on the opposite side.
And in the same way also a Levite, [when he] came down to the place and saw [him], passed by on the opposite side.
And he was not willing for a time, but after these [things] he said to himself, 'Even if I do not fear God or respect people,
yet because this widow is causing trouble for me, I will grant her justice, so that she does not wear me down in the end [by her] coming back!'"
And those who were in front rebuked him, that he should be silent, but he cried out {even more loudly}, "Son of David, have mercy on me!"
"He saved others; he is not able to save himself! He is the king of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him!
and one of you should say to them, "Go in peace, keep warm and {eat well}," but does not give them what is necessary for the body, what [is] the benefit?
Is it nothing to you, {all who pass by}? Look and see if there is sorrow like my sorrow, which was dealt to me, which Yahweh inflicted on the {day of his wrath}.
And [the] Philistines seized him, gouged his eyes, and brought him to Gaza. They tied him up with bronze shackles, and he became a grinder {in the prison}.
Then Saul said, "This [is] what you must say to David: '{The king desires no bride price} except for a hundred foreskins of [the] Philistines, to avenge himself on the enemies of the king.'" (Now Saul had planned to allow David to fall by the hand of [the] Philistines.)
From Thematic Bible
Heartlessness » Cain
Then Yahweh said to Cain, "Where [is] Abel your brother?" And he said, "I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?"
But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came up [and] asked him, saying, "Send her away, because she is crying out after us!"
Heartlessness » The spectators at the cross
"He saved others; he is not able to save himself! He is the king of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him!
Heartlessness » The priest and levite
Now by coincidence a certain priest was going down on that road, and [when he] saw him, he passed by on the opposite side. And in the same way also a Levite, [when he] came down to the place and saw [him], passed by on the opposite side.
Heartlessness » The unjust judge
And he was not willing for a time, but after these [things] he said to himself, 'Even if I do not fear God or respect people, yet because this widow is causing trouble for me, I will grant her justice, so that she does not wear me down in the end [by her] coming back!'"
Heartlessness » The people who rebuked the blind man
And those who were in front rebuked him, that he should be silent, but he cried out {even more loudly}, "Son of David, have mercy on me!"
Heartlessness » Those who fail to help the poor
and one of you should say to them, "Go in peace, keep warm and {eat well}," but does not give them what is necessary for the body, what [is] the benefit?