60 Bible Verses about Sympathy

You have seen trouble and grief and placed them under your control. The victim entrusts himself to you. You alone have been the helper of orphans.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort. He comforts us in all our trouble, that we may be able to comfort those who also have trouble, through the comfort with which we are comforted from God.

If you take someone's cloak as a pledge that he will pay you, you must give it back to him before the sunsets, for it is the only covering he has to keep him warm. What else can he sleep in? When he cries out to me for help, I will answer him because I am merciful.

He executes justice for the orphan and the widow. He shows His love for the alien by giving him food and clothing.

When Jehovah established judges he supported each judge. He delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days the judge lived. He had compassion for them as they groaned under those who oppressed and afflicted them.

Jehovah is a refuge for the oppressed, a place of safety in times of trouble.

When you call to me, I will answer you. I will be with you when you are in trouble. I will deliver you and honor you.

Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed. Her sin has been paid for and she has received double for all her sins from Jehovah's hand.

As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you. You will be comforted in Jerusalem.

My sorrow is beyond healing, my heart is faint within me!

Nevertheless he who comforts the lowly, even God, comforted us by the coming of Titus.

Jehovah says: Do not enter a house of mourning, or go to lament or to console them. I have withdrawn my peace from this people, declares Jehovah, even my loving kindness and compassion. Both great and small men will die in this land. They will not be buried, they will not be lamented, nor will anyone gash himself or shave his head for them.

When its twigs are dry, they are broken off and women come and make fires with them. For they have no understanding (discernment). Their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.

Look down and see from heaven, from your holy and beautiful dwelling. Where is your determination (zeal) and might? Where is the longing of your heart and your compassion? Do not hold back.

Jesus wept.

We do not have a high priest who is not able to sympathize with our infirmities (weaknesses). He was tested in all things like ourselves. Yet he was without sin!

When he saw the large crowds of people, he was moved with compassion for them. He knew they were distressed and scattered like sheep not having a shepherd.

Moved with compassion Jesus touched him. I want to, he said. Be healed!

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and you say look he is a gluttonous man, and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!

Since the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also took part of the same things, that through death he might destroy him that had the power to cause death, [Satan] the Devil. And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. He does not help the angels, but he helps the seed of Abraham.read more.
This means that he had to become like his brothers in every way, in order to be their faithful and merciful High Priest in his service to God, in order to offer a propitiatory sacrifice (pay atonement) (to make reconciliation) for the sins of the people. Since he has suffered and was tested in every way; he is able to help those who are being tested.

Jonathan was angry that his father had insulted David. He got up and left the table. He did not eat anything all that day.

Job's three friends heard about all the terrible things that happened to him. Each of them came from his home: Eliphaz of Teman, Bildad of Shuah, and Zophar of Naama. They agreed they would go together to sympathize with Job and comfort him.

She asked her father: Do this for me. Leave me alone for two months, so that I can go with my friends to wander in the mountains and grieve that I must die a virgin.

After the boy left, David got up from behind the pile of stones. He fell on his knees and bowed with his face to the ground three times. Both he and Jonathan cried as they kissed each other. David's grief was even greater than Jonathan's.

David thought: I will show kindness to Hanun since his father Nahash showed me kindness. David sent his servants to comfort Hanun after his father's death. When David's servants entered Ammonite territory, the Ammonite princes asked their master Hanun: Do you think David is honoring your father because he sent men to comfort you? Perhaps David sent his men to explore the city, spy on it, and destroy it.

David thought: I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me. So David sent a delegation to express his sympathy to Hanun concerning his father. David's men came to Hanun in the land of the Ammonites to express sympathy to him. The Ammonite nobles said to Hanun: Do you think David honors your father by sending men to you to express sympathy? Or have his men come to you to explore and spy out the country and overthrow it?

I too could speak like you, if I were in your place. I could compose words against you. And I would shake my head at you. I could strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve your pain.

Have pity on me, my friends! Have pity on me because God's hand has struck me down.

I was a father to the needy! I championed the cause of the stranger.

Have I not wept for the one whose life is hard? Was I not grieved for the needy?

God caused the officer in charge to show special favor and kindness to Daniel.

Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles away. Many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to console them about their brother.

Do not mistreat a foreigner. You know how it feels to be a foreigner. After all you were foreigners in Egypt.

Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, brotherly, tenderhearted, and humble.

Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner. Remember that you were foreigners in Egypt.

Never mistreat a foreigner living in your land. Foreigners living among you will be like your own people. Love them as you love yourself, because you were foreigners living in Egypt. I am Jehovah your God.

Love those who are aliens. For you were also aliens in the land of Egypt.

Is this not the fast I choose to loosen the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free and break every yoke? Is it not to divide your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into the house? When you see the naked, should you cover him and not hide yourself from your own flesh?

He comforts us in all our trouble, that we may be able to comfort those who also have trouble, through the comfort with which we are comforted from God. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ. If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort. It works through patience and longsuffering and is the same sufferings that we also suffer.read more.
Our hope for you is steadfast; knowing that, as you are partakers of the sufferings, so you also partake of the comfort.

To the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excess sorrow.

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is offended, and I do not burn with indignation?

It is right for me to feel this way on behalf of you all, because I have you in my heart. Both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the good news you are all partakers with me of grace.

If there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender affection (tender mercy) and compassions,

You did well that you share with me in my affliction.

As God's chosen, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness (humility), meekness (mildness), and long-suffering (patience).

You know how we dealt with each one of you. It was like a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging and showing you. You should walk worthily of God, who called you into his own kingdom and glory.

Let a widow be put on the list if she is under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man, having a good reputation for good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the feet of the holy ones, if she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work.

You shared the sufferings of prisoners. When all your belongings were seized, you endured your loss gladly. This is because you knew that you possessed something much better, which would last forever.

Remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them. Remember those who are suffering, as though you were suffering as they are.

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.

This is what you must do whenever there are poor Israelites in one of your cities in the land that Jehovah your God is giving you.

A despairing man should have the devotion of his friends, even though he forsakes his reverence for the Almighty. But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams, as the streams that overflow when darkened by thawing ice and swollen with melting snow,read more.
but that cease to flow in the dry season, and in the heat vanishes from their channels. Caravans turn aside from their routes. They go into the wasteland and perish.

I have become a disgrace because of all my opponents. I have become someone dreaded by my friends, even by my neighbors. Those who see me on the street run away from me. I have faded from memory as if I were dead and have become like a piece of broken pottery.

My loved ones and my friends keep their distance and my relatives stand far away because of my sickness.

Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

For I have heard the whispering of many: Terror on every side! Denounce him; yes, let us denounce him! All my trusted friends are watching for my fall. They say: Perhaps he will be deceived, so that we may prevail against him and take our revenge on him.

For these things I weep. My eye streams with water because the comforter who might give me new life is far from me. My children are desolate because the enemy is strong.

Should you [also] show mercy to your fellow servant the same way I showed mercy to you?'