Bible Verses About Compassion

A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.

She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.

Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.

The Lord is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.

He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.

Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.

Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:

The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.

To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;

The Lord openeth the eyes of the blind: the Lord raiseth them that are bowed down: the Lord loveth the righteous:

If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: the Lord is gracious and full of compassion.

I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.

Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.

Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.

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 towards them, and he healed their sick.

Then Jesus called his disciples [to him], and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.

So Jesus had compassion [on them], and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.

But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came were he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion [on him],

And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

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

Shouldst thou not also have had compassion on thy fellow-servant, even as I had pity on thee?

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

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.

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;

That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.

And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:

And the LORD was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect to them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither did he as yet reject them from his presence.

For if ye turn again to the LORD, your brethren and your children [will find] compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they will return into this land: for the LORD your God [is] gracious and merciful, and will not turn away [his] face from you, if ye return to him.

And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling-place:

Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave [them] all into his hand.