8 Bible Verses about Compassion, Examples Of
Most Relevant Verses
Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.
Many of the Jewish people had come to Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.
She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. And she had compassion on him, and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children."
"Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you.
Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.
so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow. Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him.
Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also are not tempted.
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.