34 Bible Verses about empathy

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering;

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

Finally, be all of one mind, sympathising, full of brotherly love, tender hearted, humble minded;

For thus saith Jehovah: Enter not into the house of wailing, neither go to lament or bemoan them; for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith Jehovah, the loving-kindness and the tender mercies.

for, in that himself has suffered, being tempted, he is able to help those that are being tempted.

I have compassion on the crowd, because they have stayed with me already three days and they have not anything they can eat,

And the lord of that bondman, being moved with compassion, loosed him and forgave him the loan.

For we have not a high priest not able to sympathise with our infirmities, but tempted in all things in like manner, sin apart.

He will have compassion on the poor and needy, and will save the souls of the needy:

and I, should not I have pity on Nineveh, the great city, wherein are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

being able to exercise forbearance towards the ignorant and erring, since he himself also is clothed with infirmity;

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

The Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he has often refreshed me, and has not been ashamed of my chain;

But when he saw the crowds he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed, and cast away as sheep not having a shepherd.

and be to one another kind, compassionate, forgiving one another, so as God also in Christ has forgiven you.

Blessed the merciful, for they shall find mercy.

The eye of the man in thy midst that is tender and very luxurious shall be evil towards his brother, and the wife of his bosom, and the residue of his children which he hath left;

Look on the right hand and see; there is no man that knoweth me: refuge hath failed me; no man careth for my soul.

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

And thou shalt not let anything cleave to thy hand of the devoted thing; that Jehovah may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;

Remember prisoners, as bound with them; those that are evil-treated, as being yourselves also in the body.

He hath shewn thee, O man, what is good: and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with thy God?

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity,

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 who have endured. Ye have heard of the endurance of Job, and seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is full of tender compassion and pitiful.

Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fulness of bread, and careless ease was in her and in her daughters, but she did not strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Rejoice with those that rejoice, weep with those that weep.

If then there be any comfort in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and compassions,

And the Lord, seeing her, was moved with compassion for 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 crush thy head, and thou shalt crush his heel.

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

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

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

Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be well-ordered.