34 Bible Verses about empathy

Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering,

And Saul saith, 'Blessed are ye of Jehovah, for ye have pity on me;

And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous,

For thus said Jehovah: Do not enter the house of a mourning-feast, Nor go to lament nor bemoan for them, For I have removed My peace from this people, An affirmation of Jehovah, The kindness and the mercies.

for in that he suffered, himself being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.

'I have compassion upon the multitude, because now three days they do continue with me, and they have not what they may eat;

and the lord of that servant having been moved with compassion did release him, and the debt he forgave him.

for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but one tempted in all things in like manner -- apart from sin;

He hath pity on the poor and needy, And the souls of the needy he saveth,

and I -- have not I pity on Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than twelve myriads of human beings, who have not known between their right hand and their left -- and much cattle!'

able to be gentle to those ignorant and going astray, since himself also is compassed with infirmity;

and openeth, and seeth him -- the lad, and lo, a child weeping! and she hath pity on him, and saith, 'This is one of the Hebrews' children.'

may the Lord give kindness to the house of Onesiphorus, because many times he did refresh me, and of my chain was not ashamed,

And having seen the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, that they were faint and cast aside, as sheep not having a shepherd,

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

Happy the kind -- because they shall find kindness.

The man who is tender in thee, and who is very delicate -- his eye is evil against his brother, and against the wife of his bosom, and against the remnant of his sons whom he leaveth,

Looking on the right hand -- and seeing, And I have none recognizing; Perished hath refuge from me, There is none inquiring for my soul.

of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,

and there doth not cleave to thy hand any of the devoted thing, so that Jehovah doth turn back from the fierceness of His anger, and hath given to thee mercies, and loved thee, and multiplied thee, as He hath sworn to thy fathers,

be mindful of those in bonds, as having been bound with them, of those maltreated, as also yourselves being in the body;

He hath declared to thee, O man, what is good; Yea, what is Jehovah requiring of thee, Except -- to do judgment, and love kindness, And lowly to walk with thy God?

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

And I -- this is My covenant with them, said Jehovah, My Spirit that is on thee, And My words that I have put in thy mouth, Depart not from thy mouth, And from the mouth of thy seed, And from the mouth of thy seed's seed, said Jehovah, From henceforth unto the age!

lo, we call happy those who are enduring; the endurance of Job ye heard of, and the end of the Lord ye have seen, that very compassionate is the Lord, and pitying.

Lo, this hath been the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, Arrogancy, fulness of bread, and quiet ease, Have been to her and to her daughters, And the hand of the afflicted and needy She hath not strengthened.

to rejoice with the rejoicing, and to weep with the weeping,

If, then, any exhortation is in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

And the Lord having seen her, was moved with compassion towards her, and said to her, 'Be not weeping;'

and enmity I put between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he doth bruise thee -- the head, and thou dost bruise him -- the heel.'

Having, then, a great chief priest passed through the heavens -- Jesus the Son of God -- may we hold fast the profession,

And it cometh to pass, in those days, that Moses is grown, and he goeth out unto his brethren, and looketh on their burdens, and seeth a man, an Egyptian, smiting a man, a Hebrew, one of his brethren,

And David saith unto Gad, 'I am greatly distressed, let me fall, I pray thee, into the hand of Jehovah, for very many are His mercies, and into the hand of man let me not fall.'

Ponder thou the path of thy feet, And all thy ways are established.