34 Bible Verses about empathy

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering;

And Saul said, Blessed be ye of the LORD; for ye have compassion on me.

Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another; love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:

For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even loving-kindness and mercies.

For in that he himself hath suffered, being tempted, he is able to succor them that are tempted.

I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat:

Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt.

For we have not a high priest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but who was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.

He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.

And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also many cattle?

Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.

And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.

The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus; for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:

But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.

And be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil towards his brother, and towards the wife of his bosom, and towards the remnant of his children whom he shall leave:

I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.

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

And there shall cleave naught of the cursed thing to thy hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn to thy fathers;

Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them who suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

He hath shown thee, O man, what is good; and what the LORD doth require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.

Behold, we count them happy who endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Rejoice with them that rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

If there is therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said to her, Weep not.

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Seeing then that we have a great High Priest, that hath passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out to his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren.

And David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for very great are his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man.

Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.