39 Bible Verses about pity
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He will have pity on the poor, and be the saviour of those who are in need.
Have no pity; let life be given for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and pity on whom I will have pity.
For I will have no more pity for the people of the land, says the Lord; but I will give up everyone into his neighbour's hand and into the hand of his king: and they will make the land waste, and I will not keep them safe from their hands.
My eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity: I will send on you the punishment of your ways, and your disgusting works will be among you; and you will see that I am the Lord who gives punishment.
Do not be guided by him or give attention to him; have no pity on him or mercy, and give him no cover;
As a father has pity on his children, so the Lord has pity on his worshippers.
For this reason I will let loose my wrath: my eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity.
Covering yourself with wrath you have gone after us, cutting us off without pity;
And you are to send destruction on all the peoples which the Lord your God gives into your hands; have no pity on them, and do not give worship to their gods; for that will be a cause of sin to you.
And if one has a fall, the other will give him a hand; but unhappy is the man who is by himself, because he has no helper.
My eye will not have mercy on you, and I will have no pity: but I will send the punishment of your ways on you, and your disgusting works will be among you: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.
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.
And the lord of that servant, being moved with pity, let him go, and made him free of the debt.
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most unhappy.
And to these he said in my hearing, Go through the town after him using your axes: do not let your eyes have mercy, and have no pity:
He who makes his wealth greater by taking interest, only gets it together for him who has pity on the poor.
Then the Lord had a care for the honour of his land and had pity on his people.
And I will have no mercy on her children, for they are the children of her loose ways.
Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me.
A hard-faced nation, who will have no respect for the old or mercy for the young:
He who has pity on the poor gives to the Lord, and the Lord will give him his reward.
But if a man has this world's goods, and sees that his brother is in need, and keeps his heart shut against his brother, how is it possible for the love of God to be in him?
Have no pity on him, so that Israel may be clear from the crime of putting a man to death without cause, and it will be well for you.
My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.
And when it came to his ears that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he gave a cry, and said, Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me.
In their hands are bows and spears; they are cruel, violently putting the young men to death, and crushing the young women; they have no pity for children, and no mercy for the fruit of the body.
And as for me, my eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity, but I will send the punishment of their ways on their heads.
But I had pity for my holy name which the children of Israel had made unclean wherever they went.
And frequently it has sent him into the fire and into the water, for his destruction; but if you are able to do anything, have pity on us, and give us help.
The tax-farmer, on the other hand, keeping far away, and not lifting up even his eyes to heaven, made signs of grief and said, God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
But I will have mercy on Judah and will give them salvation by the Lord their God, but not by the bow or the sword or by fighting or by horses or horsemen.
And he got up and went to his father. But while he was still far away, his father saw him and was moved with pity for him and went quickly and took him in his arms and gave him a kiss.
From Thematic Bible
Pity » Not to be shown to offenders
Do not be guided by him or give attention to him; have no pity on him or mercy, and give him no cover;
Have no pity on him, so that Israel may be clear from the crime of putting a man to death without cause, and it will be well for you.
And you are to send destruction on all the peoples which the Lord your God gives into your hands; have no pity on them, and do not give worship to their gods; for that will be a cause of sin to you.
Have no pity; let life be given for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
If two men are fighting, and the wife of one of them, coming to the help of her husband, takes the other by the private parts; Her hand is to be cut off; have no pity on her.
Pity » Of God
It was no sent one or angel, but he himself who was their saviour: in his love and in his pity he took up their cause, and he took them in his arms, caring for them all through the years.
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.
Pity » Instances of » The master of the unforgiving servant
And the lord of that servant, being moved with pity, let him go, and made him free of the debt.
Pity » Of jesus
And he got out, and saw a great mass of people, and he had pity on them, because they were like sheep without a keeper: and he gave them teaching about a number of things.
Topics on Pity
Self Pity
Exodus 16:3And the children of Israel said to them, It would have been better for the Lord to have put us to death in the land of Egypt, where we were seated by the flesh-pots and had bread enough for our needs; for you have taken us out to this waste of sand, to put all this people to death through need of food.