Thematic Bible: Compassion and sympathy
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Compassion and sympathy » Exercise towards » The weak
Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
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Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to fall, and I am not indignant?
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Compassion and sympathy » Promise to those who show
And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward."
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Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will repay him for his deed.
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Compassion and sympathy » Motives to » The compassion of God
He told them another parable. "The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened."
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And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, 'Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds?'
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Compassion and sympathy » Exercise towards » The chastened
Therefore I said: "Look away from me; let me weep bitter tears; do not labor to comfort me concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people."
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Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes 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 who rejoice, weep with those who weep.
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Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.
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Compassion and sympathy » Exercise towards » The afflicted
"He who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
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Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.
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Compassion and sympathy » Exercise towards » Saints
that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.
Compassion and sympathy » Inseparable from love to God
But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?
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Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship."
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Compassion and sympathy » Illustrated
But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion.
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And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.
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Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » Paul
To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.
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Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » Shobi
When David came to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the Ammonites, and Machir the son of Ammiel from Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim, brought beds, basins, and earthen vessels, wheat, barley, flour, parched grain, beans and lentils, honey and curds and sheep and cheese from the herd, for David and the people with him to eat, for they said, "The people are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness."
Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » Elijah
And she said to Elijah, "What have you against me, O man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to remembrance and to cause the death of my son!" And he said to her, "Give me your son." And he took him from her arms and carried him up into the upper chamber where he lodged, and laid him on his own bed.
Compassion and sympathy » Exercise towards » The poor
Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will repay him for his deed.
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Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » David
But I, when they were sick-- I wore sackcloth; I afflicted myself with fasting; I prayed with head bowed on my chest. I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother; as one who laments his mother, I bowed down in mourning.
Compassion and sympathy » Christ set an example of
And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, "Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » Nehemiah
As soon as I heard these words I sat down and wept and mourned for days, and I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
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Compassion and sympathy » The wicked made to feel, for saints
He caused them to be pitied by all those who held them captive.
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Compassion and sympathy » Exercise towards » Enemies
But I, when they were sick-- I wore sackcloth; I afflicted myself with fasting; I prayed with head bowed on my chest.
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Compassion and sympathy » Motives to » The sense of our infirmities
He can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is beset with weakness.
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Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » Pharaoh's daughter
When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby was crying. She took pity 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 had come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother.
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Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » Job
Did not I weep for him whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?
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Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » Job's friends
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.
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