34 Bible Verses about empathy

Put on therefore, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

Saul said, "You are blessed by the LORD; for you have had compassion on me.

Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, humble,

For thus says the LORD, 'Do not enter into the house of mourning, neither go to lament, neither bemoan them; for I have taken away my peace from this people, says the LORD, even loving kindness and tender mercies.

For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.

"I have compassion on the crowd, because they have stayed with me now three days, and have nothing to eat.

The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt.

For we do not have a high priest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy.

Shouldn't I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can't discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?"

The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness.

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."

May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,

But when he saw the crowds, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.

And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining;

Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

Bear one another's burdens, and so you will fulfill the law of Christ.

Nothing of the devoted thing shall cling to your hand; that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion on you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers;

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does the LORD require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

"As for me, this is my covenant with them," says the LORD. "My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed's seed," says the LORD, "from henceforth and forever."

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

"'Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said to her, "Do not cry."

I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."

Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession.

It happened in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brothers, and looked at their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.

David said to Gad, "I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are very great. Let me not fall into the hand of man."

Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.