Bible Verses about “compassion”
The Bible contains 15 verses about compassion across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”
“Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also [do] ye.”
“But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels [of compassion] from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?”
“¶ Finally, [be ye] all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, [be] pitiful, [be] courteous:”
“Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.”
“¶ Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;”
“Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.”
“¶ Blessed [be] God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;”
“Like as a father pitieth [his] children, [so] the LORD pitieth them that fear him.”
“[It is of] the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.”
“[They are] new every morning: great [is] thy faithfulness.”
“¶ And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.”
“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 Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick.”
“And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things.”