Thematic Bible: Compassion and sympathy
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Compassion and sympathy » Exercise towards » The weak
Carry the burdens of one another, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
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Who is weak, and [I am] not weak? Who is caused to sin, and I do not burn [with indignation]?
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Compassion and sympathy » Promise to those who show
And whoever gives one of these little ones only a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, truly I say to you, he will never lose his reward."
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He who lends to Yahweh [is] he who is kind to the poor, and his benefits he will repay to him.
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Compassion and sympathy » Motives to » The compassion of God
He told them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took [and] put into three measures of wheat flour until the whole [batch] was leavened."
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So the slaves 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 darnel?'
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Compassion and sympathy » Exercise towards » The chastened
Therefore I said, "Look away from me, let me {weep bitterly}; you must not insist on comforting me for 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, so 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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And finally, all [of you be] harmonious, sympathetic, showing mutual affection, compassionate, humble,
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Compassion and sympathy » Exercise towards » The afflicted
"Loyal love [should come] for the afflicted [from] his friend, even if he forsakes the fear of Shaddai.
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Remember the prisoners, as [though you were] fellow-prisoners; [remember] the mistreated, as [though] [you] yourselves also are being [mistreated] in the body.
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Compassion and sympathy » Exercise towards » Saints
in order that there not be a division in the body, but the members would have the same concern for one another. And if one member suffers, all the members suffer together; if a member is honored, all the members rejoice with [it].
Compassion and sympathy » Inseparable from love to God
But whoever has the world's material possessions and observes his brother {in need} and shuts his heart against him, how does the love of God reside in him?
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Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you [people] say that in Jerusalem is the place where it is necessary to worship."
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Compassion and sympathy » Illustrated
But a certain Samaritan who was traveling came up to him and, [when he] saw [him], had compassion.
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And he set out [and] came to his own father. But [while] he was still a long way away, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran {and embraced him} and kissed him.
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Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » Paul
To the weak I became weak, in order that I may gain the weak. I have become all [things] to all [people], in order that by all means I may save some.
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Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » Shobi
Just as David had arrived in Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the {Ammonites} and Makir the son of Ammiel from Lo Debar and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim brought beds and basins and objects of pottery, as well as wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils, honey, curds, sheep, cheese, and cattle for David and for the people who [were] with him to eat. For they had thought, "The troops [are] hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness."
Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » Elijah
She said to Elijah, "{What do you have against me}, O man of God, [that] you have come to me to make known my guilt and to cause my son to die?" Then he said to her, "Give me your son." He took him from her lap and carried him up to the upper room where he was staying, and he laid him on his bed.
Compassion and sympathy » Exercise towards » The poor
He who lends to Yahweh [is] he who is kind to the poor, and his benefits he will repay to him.
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Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » David
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing [was] sackcloth. I weakened my soul with fasting, and my prayer {returned to me unanswered}. I {behaved} as [though he were] a friend [or] as a brother to me. As one lamenting a mother, I was bowed down [in] mourning.
Compassion and sympathy » Christ set an example of
And when he approached [and] saw the city, he wept over it, saying, "If you had known on this day--even you--the things [that make] for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » Nehemiah
When I heard these words, I sat and wept and mourned for days, and I was fasting and praying before the God of the heavens.
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Compassion and sympathy » The wicked made to feel, for saints
And he {let them find compassion} before all their captors.
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Compassion and sympathy » Exercise towards » Enemies
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing [was] sackcloth. I weakened my soul with fasting, and my prayer {returned to me unanswered}.
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Compassion and sympathy » Motives to » The sense of our infirmities
being able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and led astray, since he himself also is surrounded by weakness,
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Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » Pharaoh's daughter
and opened [it] and saw him--the boy--and it was a lad weeping, and she had compassion for him and said, "This [must be] from the boys of the Hebrews."
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Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » Jews
So many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary in order to console them concerning their brother.)
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Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » Job
Have I not wept for {the unfortunate}, [and] grieved myself over the poor?
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Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » Job's friends
Thus Job's three friends heard of this calamity that had come upon him. So each set out from his [own] place: Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite. And they met together to come to console him and to comfort him.
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