34 Bible Verses about empathy

As saints of God, then, holy and dearly loved, let your behaviour be marked by pity and mercy, kind feeling, a low opinion of yourselves, gentle ways, and a power of undergoing all things;

And Saul said, The Lord's blessing will be yours, for you have had pity on me

Last of all, see that you are all in agreement; feeling for one another, loving one another like brothers, full of pity, without pride:

For this is what the Lord has said: Do not go into the house of sorrow, do not go to make weeping or songs of grief for them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, says the Lord, even mercy and pity.

For having been put to the test himself, he is able to give help to others when they are tested.

I have pity for these people because they have been with me now three days, and have no food;

And the lord of that servant, being moved with pity, let him go, and made him free of the debt.

For we have not a high priest who is not able to be touched by the feelings of our feeble flesh; but we have one who has been tested in all points as we ourselves are tested, but without sin.

He will have pity on the poor, and be the saviour of those who are in need.

And am I not to have mercy on Nineveh, that great town, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons without the power of judging between right and left, as well as much cattle?

He is able to have feeling for those who have no knowledge and for those who are wandering from the true way, because he himself is feeble;

And opening it, she saw the child, and he was crying. And she had pity on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.

May the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus because he frequently gave me help, and had no feeling of shame because I was in chains;

But when he saw all the people he was moved with pity for them, because they were troubled and wandering like sheep without a keeper.

And be kind to one another, full of pity, having forgiveness for one another, even as God in Christ had forgiveness for you.

Happy are those who have mercy: for they will be given mercy.

That man among you who is soft and used to comfort will be hard and cruel to his brother, and to his dear wife, and to of those his children who are still living;

Looking to my right side, I saw no man who was my friend: I had no safe place; no one had any care for my soul.

Take on yourselves one another's troubles, and so keep the law of Christ.

Keep not a thing of what is cursed for yourselves: so the Lord may be turned away from the heat of his wrath, and have mercy on you, and give you increase as he said in his oath to your fathers:

Keep in mind those who are in chains, as if you were chained with them, and those who are in trouble, as being yourselves in the body.

He has made clear to you, O man, what is good; and what is desired from you by the Lord; only doing what is right, and loving mercy, and walking without pride before your God.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,

And as for me, this is my agreement with them, says the Lord: my spirit which is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, will not go away from your mouth, or from the mouth of your seed, or from the mouth of your seed's seed, says the Lord, from now and for ever.

We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.

Truly, this was the sin of your sister Sodom: pride, a full measure of food, and the comforts of wealth in peace, were seen in her and her daughters, and she gave no help to the poor or to those in need.

Take part in the joy of those who are glad, and in the grief of those who are sorrowing.

If then there is any comfort in Christ, any help given by love, any uniting of hearts in the Spirit, any loving mercies and pity,

And when the Lord saw her, he had pity on her and said to her, Be not sad.

And there will be war between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed: by him will your head be crushed and by you his foot will be wounded.

Having then a great high priest, who has made his way through the heavens, even Jesus the Son of God, let us be strong in our faith.

Now when Moses had become a man, one day he went out to his people and saw how hard their work was; and he saw an Egyptian giving blows to a Hebrew, one of his people.

And David said to Gad, This is a hard decision for me to make: let me come into the hands of the Lord, for great are his mercies: let me not come into the hands of men.

Keep a watch on your behaviour; let all your ways be rightly ordered.