34 Bible Verses about empathy

Put on therefore, as chosen men of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassion, kindness, humility, mildness, longsuffering,

And Saul said, Blessed be ye of LORD, for ye have had compassion on me.

And finally, all be like-minded, sympathetic, brother-loving, compassionate, friendly,

For thus says LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, nor go to lament, nor bemoan them, for I have taken away my peace from this people, says LORD, even loving kindness and tender mercies.

For in that he himself has suffered, having been tempted, he is able to help those being tempted.

I feel compassion toward the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and do not have what they might eat.

And having felt compassion, the lord of that bondman released him, and forgave him the debt.

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but who was tempted in all things in the same way, without sin.

He will have pity on a poor and needy man, and he will save the souls of the needy.

And should not I have regard for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand men who cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle?

Who can be gentle to those who are ignorant and led astray, since he himself is also encompassed with weakness.

And she opened it, and saw the child, and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.

May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain.

But when he saw the multitudes, he felt compassion for them, because they were troubled and dejected, as sheep having no shepherd.

And become good toward each other, compassionate, forgiving each other, even as also God in Christ forgave us.

Blessed are the merciful, because they will obtain mercy.

The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his sons whom he has remaining,

Look on [my] right hand, and see, for there is no man who knows me. Refuge has failed me. No man cares for my soul.

Bear the burdens of each other, and so fulfill the law of the Christ.

And nothing of the devoted thing shall cling to thy hand, that LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he has sworn to thy fathers,

Remember the prisoners as being in bondage together, those who are ill-treated as also yourselves being in the body.

He has shown thee, O man, what is good. And what does LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

And as for me, this is my covenant with them, says LORD: My Spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed

Behold, we regard those who endured, blessed. Ye have heard of the fortitude of Job, and have seen the outcome of Lord, that he is very compassionate and merciful.

Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters, and she did not strengthen the hand of a poor and needy man.

Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep,

If therefore any exhortation is in Christ, if any encouragement of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

And when the Lord saw her, he felt compassion toward her, and said to her, Weep not.

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed. He shall bruise thy head, and thou shall bruise his heel.

Having therefore a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us take hold of the affirmation.

And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown up, that he went out to his brothers, and looked on their burdens. And he saw an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brothers.

And David said to Gad, I am in a great strait. Let me fall, I pray, into the hand of LORD, for his mercies are very great, and let me not fall into the hand of man.

Make the path of thy feet level, and let all thy ways be established.