Thematic Bible: Compassion and sympathy
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Compassion and sympathy » Exercise towards » The weak
Bear one another's burdens, and thus fulfil the law of the Christ.
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Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is stumbled, and I burn not?
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Compassion and sympathy » Promise to those who show
And whosoever shall give to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.
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He that is gracious to the poor lendeth unto Jehovah; and what he hath bestowed will he repay unto him.
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Compassion and sympathy » Motives to » The compassion of God
He spoke another parable to them: The kingdom of the heavens is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal until it had been all leavened.
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And the bondmen of the householder came up and said to him, Sir, hast thou not sown good seed in thy field? whence then has it darnel?
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Compassion and sympathy » Exercise towards » The chastened
Therefore said I, Look away from me; let me weep bitterly: labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
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Oh that my head were waters, and mine eye a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
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Compassion and sympathy » Exhortation to
Rejoice with those that rejoice, weep with those that weep.
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Finally, be all of one mind, sympathising, full of brotherly love, tender hearted, humble minded;
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Compassion and sympathy » Exercise towards » The afflicted
For him that is fainting kindness is meet from his friend; or he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
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Remember prisoners, as bound with them; those that are evil-treated, as being yourselves also in the body.
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Compassion and sympathy » Exercise towards » Saints
that there might be no division in the body, but that the members might have the same concern one for another. And if one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; and if one member be glorified, all the members rejoice with it.
Compassion and sympathy » Inseparable from love to God
But whoso may have the world's substance, and see his brother having need, and shut up his bowels from him, how abides the love of God in him?
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Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where one must worship.
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Compassion and sympathy » Illustrated
But a certain Samaritan journeying came to him, and seeing him, was moved with compassion,
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And he rose up and went to his own father. But while he was yet a long way off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell upon his neck, and covered him with kisses.
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Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » Paul
I became to the weak, as weak, in order that I might gain the weak. To all I have become all things, in order that at all events I might save some.
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Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » Shobi
And as soon as David came to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim, brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentils, and parched pulse, and honey, and cream, and sheep, and cheese of kine to David, and to the people that were with him, to eat; for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty in the wilderness.
Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » Elijah
And she said to Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come to me to call mine iniquity to remembrance, and to slay my son? And he said to her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the upper chamber where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.
Compassion and sympathy » Exercise towards » The poor
He that is gracious to the poor lendeth unto Jehovah; and what he hath bestowed will he repay unto him.
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Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » David
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I chastened my soul with fasting, and my prayer returned into mine own bosom: I behaved myself as though he had been a friend, a brother to me; I bowed down in sadness, as one that mourneth for a mother.
Compassion and sympathy » Christ set an example of
And as he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it, saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, even at least in this thy day, the things that are for thy peace: but now they are hid from thine eyes;
Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » Nehemiah
And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat and wept, and mourned for days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of the heavens,
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Compassion and sympathy » The wicked made to feel, for saints
And he caused them to find compassion of all those that had carried them captives.
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Compassion and sympathy » Exercise towards » Enemies
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I chastened my soul with fasting, and my prayer returned into mine own bosom:
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Compassion and sympathy » Motives to » The sense of our infirmities
being able to exercise forbearance towards the ignorant and erring, since he himself also is clothed with infirmity;
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Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » Pharaoh's daughter
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.
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Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » Jews
and many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, that they might console them concerning their brother.
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Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » Job
Did not I weep for him whose days were hard? was not my soul grieved for the needy?
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Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » Job's friends
And three friends of Job heard of all this evil that was come upon him. And they came each one from his place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to condole with him and to comfort him.
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