Thematic Bible: Compassion and sympathy
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Compassion and sympathy » Exercise towards » The weak
of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,
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Who is infirm, and I am not infirm? who is stumbled, and I am not fired;
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Compassion and sympathy » Promise to those who show
and whoever may give to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say to you, he may not lose his reward.'
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Whoso is lending to Jehovah is favouring the poor, And his deed He repayeth to him.
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Compassion and sympathy » Motives to » The compassion of God
Another simile spake he to them: 'The reign of the heavens is like to leaven, which a woman having taken, hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.'
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'And the servants of the householder, having come near, said to him, Sir, good seed didst thou not sow in thy field? whence then hath it the darnel?
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Compassion and sympathy » Exercise towards » The chastened
Therefore I said, 'Look ye from me, I am bitter in my weeping, Haste not to comfort me, For the destruction of the daughter of my people.'
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Who doth make my head waters, And mine eye a fountain of tears? And I weep by day and by night, For the wounded of the daughter of my people.
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Compassion and sympathy » Exhortation to
to rejoice with the rejoicing, and to weep with the weeping,
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And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous,
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Compassion and sympathy » Exercise towards » The afflicted
To a despiser of his friends is shame, And the fear of the Mighty he forsaketh.
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be mindful of those in bonds, as having been bound with them, of those maltreated, as also yourselves being 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 anxiety for one another, and whether one member doth suffer, suffer with it do all the members, or one member is glorified, rejoice with it do all the members;
Compassion and sympathy » Inseparable from love to God
and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him -- how doth the love of God remain in him?
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our fathers in this mountain did worship, and ye -- ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where it behoveth to worship.'
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Compassion and sympathy » Illustrated
'But a certain Samaritan, journeying, came along him, and having seen him, he was moved with compassion,
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'And having risen, he went unto his own father, and he being yet far distant, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and having ran he fell upon his neck and kissed him;
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Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » Paul
I became to the infirm as infirm, that the infirm I might gain; to all men I have become all things, that by all means I may save some.
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Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » Shobi
And it cometh to pass at the coming in of David to Mahanaim, that Shobi, son of Nahash, from Rabbah of the Bene-Ammon, and Machir son of Ammiel, from Lo-Debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite, from Rogelim, couch, and basin, and earthen vessel, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and roasted corn, and beans, and lentiles, and roasted pulse, and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, have brought nigh for David, and for the people who are with him to eat, for they said, 'Thy people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.'
Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » Elijah
And she saith unto Elijah, 'What -- to me and to thee, O man of God? thou hast come unto me to cause mine iniquity to be remembered, and to put my son to death!' And he saith unto her, 'Give to me thy son;' and he taketh him out of her bosom, and taketh him up unto the upper chamber where he is abiding, and layeth him on his own bed,
Compassion and sympathy » Exercise towards » The poor
Whoso is lending to Jehovah is favouring the poor, And his deed He repayeth to him.
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Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » David
And I -- in their sickness my clothing is sackcloth, I have humbled with fastings my soul, And my prayer unto my bosom returneth. As if a friend, as if my brother, I walked habitually, As a mourner for a mother, Mourning I have bowed down.
Compassion and sympathy » Christ set an example of
And when he came nigh, having seen the city, he wept over it, saying -- 'If thou didst know, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things for thy peace; but now they were hid from thine eyes.
Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » Nehemiah
And it cometh to pass, at my hearing these words, I have sat down, and I weep and mourn for days, and I am 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 appointeth them for mercies Before all their captors.
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Compassion and sympathy » Exercise towards » Enemies
And I -- in their sickness my clothing is sackcloth, I have humbled with fastings my soul, And my prayer unto my bosom returneth.
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Compassion and sympathy » Motives to » The sense of our infirmities
able to be gentle to those ignorant and going astray, since himself also is compassed with infirmity;
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Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » Pharaoh's daughter
and openeth, and seeth him -- the lad, and lo, a child weeping! and she hath pity on him, and saith, 'This is one of the Hebrews' children.'
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Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » Jews
and many of the Jews had come unto Martha and Mary, that they might comfort them concerning their brother;
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Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » Job
Did not I weep for him whose day is hard? Grieved hath my soul for the needy.
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Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » Job's friends
And three of the friends of Job hear of all this evil that hath come upon him, and they come in each from his place -- Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite -- and they are met together to come in to bemoan him, and to comfort him;
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