60 Bible Verses about Sympathy
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Thou sawest; for thou wilt look upon trouble and anger, to give with thine hand: the poor will be left to thee; thou wert the helper of the orphan.
Praised the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion, and God of all comfort: Who comforting us upon all our pressure, that we may be able to comfort them in every pressure, by the comfort by which we ourselves are comforted by God.
If taking in pledge, thou shalt take in pledge the garment of thy friend, at the going down of the sun thou shalt turn it back to him. For it is his covering alone; his garment for his nakedness in which he shall lie; and it was when he shall cry to me, and I heard, for I am compassionate.
He did the judgment of the orphan and the widow, and he loved the stranger to give to him bread and a garment
And when Jehovah raised up to them judges, and Jehovah was with the judge, and saved them from the hand of their enemies all of the days of the judge: for Jehovah will grieve from their groaning from the face of those pressing them and thrusting them.
And Jehovah will be a height for the oppressed one, a height for times in straits.
He shall call me and I will answer him: I am with him in straits; I will deliver him and honor him.
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, will your God say Speak ye to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her that her war was filled up, her iniquity was paid off: that she received from the hand of Jehovah double for all her sins.
As a man whom his mother shall comfort him, so will I comfort you; and in Jerusalem ye shall be comforted.
But God, comforting the humble, comforted us in the arrival of Titus;
For thus said Jehovah, Thou shalt not go in to the house of wailing, and thou shalt not go to lament and thou shalt not deplore for them, for I took away my peace from this people, says Jehovah; -kindness and mercies. And the great and small died in this land: they shall not be buried, and they shall not lament for them, and none shall cut himself or make bald for them:
In its harvest being dried up, women shall break it off in coming, illuminating it: for it is a people not understanding: for this he making them will not compassionate them, and he forming them will not have mercy upon them.
Look from the heavens, and see from thy holy dwelling and thy glory: where thy zeal and thy strength? the multitude of thy bowels and thy compassions to me restrained themselves.
For we have not a chief priest unable to suffer with our weaknesses; but tried in all things as a resemblance, without sin.
And having seen the crowds, he felt compassion for them, for they were relaxed and dispersed, as sheep not having a shepherd.
And Jesus, having felt compassion, having stretched out the hand, touched him, and says to him, I will: be thou cleansed.
The Son of man came eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a man, a glutton, and wine-drinker, a friend of publicans and sinful.
Since therefore the young children participated in flesh and blood, he also likewise participated with them; that by death he might leave unemployed him having the strength of death, that is, the devil; And deliver them, as many as by fear of death were always to live bound by slavery. For certainly he lays not hold of angels; but of the seed of Abraham he lays hold.read more.
Wherefore in all things it was necessary to be made like to the brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful chief priest in things towards God, in order to propitiate for the sin of the people. For in that he himself has suffered, having been tempted, he is able to help the tempted.
And Jonathan will rise from the table in the heat of wrath, and he will not eat bread in the day of the month the second, for he was grieved for David because his father reproached him.
And the three friends of Job will hear all this evil coming upon him, and they will come, a man from his place:: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: and they will appoint to come together to deplore for him, and to comfort him.
And she will say to her father, This word shall be done to me: desist from me two months, and I will go, and go down upon the mountains, and I will lament over my virginity, I and my friends.
The boy went, and David rose from the south side, and fell upon his face to the earth, and they will worship three times, and they will kiss each his friend, and they will weep, each with his friend, till David magnified.
And David will say, I will do mercy with Hanun son of Nahash, as his father did mercy with me. And David will send to comfort him by the hand of his servants for his father. And David's servants will come to the land of the sons of Ammon. And the chiefs of the sons of Ammon will say to Hanun their lord, Is David honoring thy father in thine eyes, that he sent comforters to thee? is it not for the sake of searching out the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it, David sent his servants to thee?
And David will say, I will do mercy with Hanun son of Nahash, for his father did mercy with me. And David will send messengers to comfort him concerning his father. And David's servants will come to the land of the sons of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him. And the chiefs of the sons of Ammon will say to Hanun, Is David honoring thy father in thine eyes, that he sent comforters to thee? is it not in order to search out, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land, came his servants to thee?
Also I will speak as you: if it is your soul instead of my soul, I will join together with words against you, and shake my head against you upon it I will strengthen you with my month, the moving of my lips shall hold back
I was a father to the needy, and the contention I knew not I shall search it out
If I wept not for him being hard of day: my soul was grieved for the needy.
And God will give Daniel to mercy and compassion before the chiefs of the eunuchs.
And Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia. And many of the Jews were come to them about Martha and Many, that they might console them for their brother.
Thou shalt not press the stranger: and ye knew the soul of the stranger, for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt
And finally, all unanimous, suffering together, loving the brethren, having good bowels, an affectionate disposition:
Thou shalt not treat evil the stranger, and thou shalt not press him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not oppress him. As the native among you shall be to you the stranger sojourning with you; thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I Jehovah your God.
And love ye the stranger, for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt
Is not this the fast I shall choose? to loose the bands of injustice, to shake off the bundles of the yoke, and to send away the broken free, and ye shall break every yoke? Is it not to break thy bread to the hungry, and thou shalt bring the wandering poor to thy house? when thou shalt see the naked and cover him; and thou shalt not hide from thy flesh.
Who comforting us upon all our pressure, that we may be able to comfort them in every pressure, by the comfort by which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so by Christ abounds also our comfort. And whether we are pressed, for your comfort and salvation, being well wrought in endurance of the same sufferings which we also suffer: whether we are comforted, for your comfort and salvation.read more.
And our hope firm for you, knowing, that as ye are participators of the sufferings, so also of the comfort.
So that on the contrary ye should rather show kindness, and console, lest perhaps such be swallowed down with more abundant sadness.
Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I am not inflamed
As it is just for me to think this concerning you all, for my having you in the heart; both in my bonds, and in the justification and confirmation of the good news, ye all being partakers of grace with me.
If therefore any consolation in Christ, if any encouragement of love, if any mutual participation of the Spirit, if any compassions and mercies,
Put on therefore, as the chosen of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassions, kindnesses, humility, meekness, longsuffering;
As ye know how each one of you, as a father his children, comforting and encouraging, and testifying, For you to walk worthy of God, calling you into his kingdom and glory.
Let not a widow be chosen less than sixty years, having been wife of one man, Testified of in good works; if she have brought up children, if she lodged strangers, if she washed the feet of the holy, if she relieved the pressed, if she followed every good work.
For ye also suffered together with me in bonds, and received the pillage of your possessions with joy, knowing to have in yourselves a better and abiding substance in the heavens.
Remember them in bonds as bound together with them; them treated ill, as the same being in the body.
Reproach broke my heart, and I shall be ill at ease: and I shall hope for comforting, and none; and for those consoling, and I found not
When the needy shall be among thee, from one of thy brethren, in one of thy gates in thy land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, and thou shalt not shut thy hand from thy needy brother.
To him melting, mercy from his friend; and he will forsake the fear of the Almighty. My brethren dealt faithlessly as a torrent; as a channel of torrents they shall pass away; Being darkened because of ice, upon them the snow will be hid:read more.
In the time they will flow of they became extinct: in its heat they were extinguished from their place. The paths of their way will turn aside; they will go up into desolation and perish.
From all mine enemies I was a reproach, and greatly to my neighbors, and a fear to those knowing me: they seeing me without fled from me. I was forgotten as the dead from the heart: I was a vessel perishing.
My heart moved about rapidly, my strength forsook me, and the light of mine eyes also they not with me.
Also the man of my peace whom I trusted in him, eating my bread, magnified the heel against me.
For I heard the slander of many, terror from round about Announce ye, and we will announce. Every man of my peace watching my halting: perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we will take our vengeance of him.
For these I weep; mine eye, mine eye will go down with water, for he comforting turning back my soul, removed far off from me: my sons were desolations, for the enemy prevailed.
Oughtest thou not also to pity thy fellow-servant, as I also pitied thee
From Thematic Bible
Barnabas » Characteristics of » Sympathy
And Joses, surnamed Barnabas by the sent, (which is interpreted, Son of consolation,) a Levite, a Cyprian by birth, A field being to him having sold, he brought the money and laid at the feet of the sent.
Sympathy » The marks of true » Examples of
And the three friends of Job will hear all this evil coming upon him, and they will come, a man from his place:: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: and they will appoint to come together to deplore for him, and to comfort him.
And all the land weeping with a great voice, and all the people passing over: and the king passed over upon the torrent Kidron, and all the people passing over upon the face of the way to the desert
And many of the Jews were come to them about Martha and Many, that they might console them for their brother.
If I wept not for him being hard of day: my soul was grieved for the needy.
Sympathy » The marks of true » Burden-bearing
Put on therefore, as the chosen of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassions, kindnesses, humility, meekness, longsuffering;
And we the able ought to bear the weaknesses of the unable and not please ourselves.
Sympathy » The marks of true » Helpfulness
I shewed you all things, that so being wearied ye must support the weak, and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that himself said, It is happy to give rather than receive.
Sympathy » The marks of true » Visitation of the needy
And finally, all unanimous, suffering together, loving the brethren, having good bowels, an affectionate disposition:
Religion pure and unpolluted before God and the Father is this, To take a view of the orphans and widows in their pressure, to keep himself free from stain from the world.
Sympathy » The marks of true » Fellow-feeling for the unfortunate
Remember them in bonds as bound together with them; them treated ill, as the same being in the body.
Sympathy » The marks of true » Benevolence
Is it not to break thy bread to the hungry, and thou shalt bring the wandering poor to thy house? when thou shalt see the naked and cover him; and thou shalt not hide from thy flesh.
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Divine Sympathy
Psalm 78:39And he will remember that they are flesh; a spirit going and not turning back.