Through the tender mercy of our God, whereby the day spring from on high hath visited us:

Be merciful (responsive, compassionate, tender) just as your [heavenly] Father is merciful.

And the Lord seeing her, was moved with tender compassion for her, and said, Weep not.

And other [seed] fell among thorns, which grew up with it and [eventually] choked out [the tender sprouts].

And when those who tended them saw what happened, they fled and reported it in the city and in the fields.

was moved with tender compassion, And going to him, bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and setting him on his own beast, he brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

So he said to the worker who tended the vineyard, 'For three years now, I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and each time I inspect it I find none. Cut it down! Why should it continue to deplete the soil?'

they watch'd then, and suborn'd spies, who under pretence of their tender consciences, might ensnare him in his discourse, and so betray him to the civil power and jurisdiction of the governor.