34 Bible Verses about empathy

Put on therefore, as God's elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering;

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

Finally, be ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded:

For thus saith Jehovah, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament, neither bemoan them; for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith Jehovah, even lovingkindness and tender mercies.

For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succor them that are tempted.

I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat:

And the lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt.

For we have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but one that hath been in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

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

and should not I have regard for Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

who can bear gently with the ignorant and erring, for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity;

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.

The Lord grant mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus: for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain;

But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were distressed and scattered, as sheep not having a shepherd.

and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

The man that 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 children whom he hath remaining;

Look on my right hand, and see; For there is no man that knoweth me: Refuge hath failed me; No man careth for my soul.

Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

And there shall cleave nought of the devoted thing to thy hand; that Jehovah may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;

Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; them that are illtreated, as being yourselves also in the body.

He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth Jehovah 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, saith Jehovah: 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's seed, saith Jehovah, from henceforth and for ever.

Behold, we call them blessed that endured: ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, how that the Lord is full of pity, and merciful.

Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fulness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Rejoice with them that rejoice; weep with them that weep.

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassions,

And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto 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 shalt bruise his heel.

Having then a great high priest, who hath passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.

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

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

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