100 Bible Verses About Empathy

He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.

Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.

Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses be for the king’s household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink.

He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.

A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.

Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the voice of thine handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way.

And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?

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

And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.

Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endureth for ever.

Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.

Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.

But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.

Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.

And they came unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, unto the land of Gilead, and they spake with them, saying,

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

For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works have been to thee-ward very good:

And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.

And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.

The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.

The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.

Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.

For the Lord heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.

She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.

And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.

And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau’s hands: so he blessed him.

Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.

And, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the Lord, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.

And Joab said unto him, Thou shalt not bear tidings this day, but thou shalt bear tidings another day: but this day thou shalt bear no tidings, because the king’s son is dead.

Until thy brother’s anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in one day?

And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant’s house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.

Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the Lord be upon you: we bless you in the name of the Lord.

He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.

I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

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.

And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.

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

When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.

That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.

Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?

And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.

And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.

Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.

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, God forbid that I should do so: but the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.

So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelt with her mother in law.

And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

And it was so, that when any man came nigh to him to do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took him, and kissed him.

When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man’s life) to employ them in the siege:

Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying,

And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before the Lord upon his two shoulders for a memorial.

If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and he shall not make good that which was torn.

And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.

When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.

As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.

The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.

For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord; and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it.

And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the Lord brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:

And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Beth–lehem:

Then Jonathan said to David, To morrow is the new moon: and thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty.

And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.

If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.

These are the statutes, which the Lord commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father’s house.

Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.

And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.

And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he clean.

And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.

But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait,

Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the Lord.

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

So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.

And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.

Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the Lord before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no part in the Lord.

And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.

And the Lord said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.

Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the Lord shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.

So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.

How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!

For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.

This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth:

They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.

And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother’s son, and said, Is this your younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son.

But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the Lord had shut up her womb.