100 Bible Verses About Compassion

Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.

Return, O Lord, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies’ sake.

For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the Lord: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.

Be merciful, O Lord, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel’s charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.

And Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed be he of the Lord, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said unto her, The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen.

Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us.

A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.

He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed.

For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.

To morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be captain over my people Israel, that he may save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry is come unto me.

My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.

What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:

And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.

And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.

Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.

Nevertheless in those days, saith the Lord, I will not make a full end with you.

Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour’s house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee.

And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation:

So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.

And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.

So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together.

And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?

And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the Lord your God.

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

Help me, O Lord my God: O save me according to thy mercy:

Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in mine eyes;

And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.

Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.

And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.

And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem it.

And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the Lord repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.

And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the Lord.

And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if ye utter not this our business. And it shall be, when the Lord hath given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.

A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.

On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace was brought before the king.

And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.

Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about.

And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:

Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites.

And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.

For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee.

Ask thy young men, and they will shew thee. Wherefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants, and to thy son David.

Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.

And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother’s house: the Lord deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.

The Lord is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.

And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.

The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

For the Lord will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake: because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people.

And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said unto her, Fear not; for thou hast born a son. But she answered not, neither did she regard it.

Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers.

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;

Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation.

To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for ever:

And Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.

And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour’s hand, ye shall not oppress one another:

And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.

Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.

Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity.

And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.

Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.

Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?

And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother’s fury turn away;

And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands; and said, Let us not kill him.

Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress.

And the soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.

I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O Lord, will I sing.

And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.

Have mercy upon me, O Lord; for I am weak: O Lord, heal me; for my bones are vexed.

And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger’s family:

And he said unto him, We are passing from Beth–lehem–judah toward the side of mount Ephraim; from thence am I: and I went to Beth–lehem–judah, but I am now going to the house of the Lord; and there is no man that receiveth me to house.

Both low and high, rich and poor, together.

I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.

All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the Lord thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the Lord liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.

Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.

And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as he came.

Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work.

Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath given thee.

The Lord hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.

He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.

Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.

He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour.

For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.