14 Bible Verses about Heartlessness
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Whoever belittles his neighbor lacks sense, but a man of understanding remains silent.
Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" He said, "I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?"
But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and begged him, saying, "Send her away, for she is crying out after us."
Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side.
So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.
For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God nor respect man,
yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.'"
And those who were in front rebuked him, telling him to be silent. But he cried out all the more, "Son of David, have mercy on me!"
"He saved others; he cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him.
and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that?
"Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which was brought upon me, which the LORD inflicted on the day of his fierce anger.
And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles. And he ground at the mill in the prison.
Then Saul said, "Thus shall you say to David, 'The king desires no bride-price except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, that he may be avenged of the king's enemies.'"Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
From Thematic Bible
Heartlessness » Cain
Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" He said, "I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?"
But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and begged him, saying, "Send her away, for she is crying out after us."
Heartlessness » The spectators at the cross
"He saved others; he cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him.
Heartlessness » The priest and levite
Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.
Heartlessness » The unjust judge
For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God nor respect man, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.'"
Heartlessness » The people who rebuked the blind man
And those who were in front rebuked him, telling him to be silent. But he cried out all the more, "Son of David, have mercy on me!"
Heartlessness » Those who fail to help the poor
and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that?