'Compassionate' in the Bible
"Blessed are the compassionate, for they shall receive compassion.
Be merciful (responsive, compassionate, tender) just as your [heavenly] Father is merciful.
No temptation [regardless of its source] has overtaken or enticed you that is not common to human experience [nor is any temptation unusual or beyond human resistance]; but God is faithful [to His word—He is compassionate and trustworthy], and He will not let you be tempted beyond your ability [to resist], but along with the temptation He [has in the past and is now and] will [always] provide the way out as well, so that you will be able to endure it [without yielding, and will overcome temptation with joy].
And be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God also forgave you in Christ.
Therefore if there is any encouragement and comfort in Christ [as there certainly is in abundance], if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship [that we share] in the Spirit, if [there is] any [great depth of] affection and compassion,
And for this purpose it was necessary that in all respects He should be made to resemble His brothers, so that He might become a compassionate and faithful High Priest in things relating to God, in order to atone for the sins of the people.
See, we count as blessed those who have endured. You have heard of Job’s endurance and have seen the outcome from the Lord. The Lord is very compassionate and merciful.
Now finally, all of you should be like-minded and sympathetic, should love believers, and be compassionate and humble,
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- Compassionate (35 instances)
Related Topics
- Adults
- Affection, Expressing
- Anger And Forgiveness
- Being Tempted
- Charitable Attitude
- Compassion
- Compassion, In Christians
- Duties To Enemies
- Enduring
- Forgiveness Kjv
- Forgiving Ones Enemies