14 Bible Verses about Heartlessness
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Whoever shows contempt for his neighbor lacks sense,
but a man with understanding keeps silent.
Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?”
“I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s guardian?”
Yet He did not say a word to her. So His disciples approached Him and urged Him, “Send her away because she cries out after us.”
A priest happened to be going down that road. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
In the same way, a Levite, when he arrived at the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.
“For a while he was unwilling, but later he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or respect man,
yet because this widow keeps pestering me, I will give her justice, so she doesn’t wear me out by her persistent coming.’”
Then those in front told him to keep quiet, but he kept crying out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”
“He saved others, but 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, keep warm, and eat well,” but you don’t give them what the body needs, what good is it?
ל LamedIs this nothing to you, all you who pass by?
Look and see!
Is there any pain like mine,
which was dealt out to me,
which the Lord made me suffer
on the day of His burning anger?
The Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles, and he was forced to grind grain in the prison.
Then Saul replied, “Say this to David: ‘The king desires no other bride-price except 100 Philistine foreskins, to take revenge on his enemies.’” Actually, Saul intended to cause David’s death at the hands of the Philistines.
From Thematic Bible
Heartlessness » Cain
Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?”
“I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s guardian?”
Yet He did not say a word to her. So His disciples
Heartlessness » The spectators at the cross
“He saved others, but He cannot save Himself! He is the King of Israel!
Heartlessness » The priest and levite
A priest happened to be going down that road. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side. In the same way, a Levite, when he arrived at the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.
Heartlessness » The unjust judge
"For a while he was unwilling, but later he said to himself, 'Even though I don't fear God or respect man, yet because this widow keeps pestering me, I will give her justice, so she doesn't wear me out by her persistent coming.' "
Heartlessness » The people who rebuked the blind man
Then those in front told him to keep quiet,
Heartlessness » Those who fail to help the poor
and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well,” but you don’t give them what the body needs, what good is it?