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100 Bible Verses about Compassion

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 466 helpful votes

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Mark 6:34 ESV / 321 helpful votes

When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things.

Colossians 3:12-13 ESV / 274 helpful votes

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

2 Corinthians 1:3-4 ESV / 252 helpful votes

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 227 helpful votes

Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

1 Peter 3:8 ESV / 186 helpful votes

Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.

1 John 3:17 ESV / 177 helpful votes

But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?

Colossians 3:12 ESV / 164 helpful votes

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,

Matthew 14:14 ESV / 155 helpful votes

When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them and healed their sick.

Genesis 6:6 ESV / 153 helpful votes

And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.

Matthew 9:36 ESV / 151 helpful votes

When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

Psalm 103:13 ESV / 146 helpful votes

As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.

Lamentations 3:22-23 ESV / 124 helpful votes

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

Romans 12:15 ESV / 118 helpful votes

Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.

Psalm 86:15 ESV / 118 helpful votes

But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

Isaiah 30:18 ESV / 112 helpful votes

Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.

Zechariah 7:9-10 ESV / 99 helpful votes

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another, do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.”

Isaiah 49:15 ESV / 91 helpful votes

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 90 helpful votes

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

Hebrews 4:15 ESV / 90 helpful votes

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.

Matthew 7:1-2 ESV / 90 helpful votes

“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.

Isaiah 54:10 ESV / 85 helpful votes

For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 73 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

Isaiah 49:15-16 ESV / 72 helpful votes

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.

Exodus 33:19 ESV / 67 helpful votes

And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The Lord.’ And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.

Psalm 116:5 ESV / 66 helpful votes

Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; our God is merciful.

Psalm 51:1 ESV / 62 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.

Psalm 103:8 ESV / 61 helpful votes

The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

Luke 15:20 ESV / 60 helpful votes

And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.

Psalm 103:2-4 ESV / 59 helpful votes

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,

Luke 7:13 ESV / 58 helpful votes

And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, “Do not weep.”

James 5:11 ESV / 57 helpful votes

Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.

Zechariah 10:6 ESV / 57 helpful votes

“I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph. I will bring them back because I have compassion on them, and they shall be as though I had not rejected them, for I am the Lord their God and I will answer them.

1 Peter 4:10 ESV / 55 helpful votes

As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace:

Psalm 111:4 ESV / 54 helpful votes

He has caused his wondrous works to be remembered; the Lord is gracious and merciful.

Romans 8:1 ESV / 53 helpful votes

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Psalm 119:77 ESV / 52 helpful votes

Let your mercy come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.

Proverbs 19:17 ESV / 51 helpful votes

Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.

Psalm 112:4 ESV / 51 helpful votes

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright; he is gracious, merciful, and righteous.

Psalm 78:38 ESV / 51 helpful votes

Yet he, being compassionate, atoned for their iniquity and did not destroy them; he restrained his anger often and did not stir up all his wrath.

Micah 6:8 ESV / 50 helpful votes

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Romans 12:20 ESV / 48 helpful votes

To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”

Luke 6:36 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

Micah 7:19 ESV / 47 helpful votes

He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.

James 1:27 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Matthew 20:34 ESV / 45 helpful votes

And Jesus in pity touched their eyes, and immediately they recovered their sight and followed him.

John 16:33 ESV / 44 helpful votes

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

John 3:1-17:26 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ...

1 John 1:9 ESV / 43 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 Corinthians 1:3-4 ESV / 43 helpful votes

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus,

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 42 helpful votes

“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 41 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Lamentations 3:32 ESV / 40 helpful votes

But, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love;

Matthew 5:9 ESV / 39 helpful votes

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

Deuteronomy 30:3 ESV / 39 helpful votes

Then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes and have mercy on you, and he will gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you.

Exodus 22:27 ESV / 39 helpful votes

For that is his only covering, and it is his cloak for his body; in what else shall he sleep? And if he cries to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.

Mark 1:41 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, “I will; be clean.”

Isaiah 49:13 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; break forth, O mountains, into singing! For the Lord has comforted his people and will have compassion on his afflicted.

Psalm 119:156 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Great is your mercy, O Lord; give me life according to your rules.

Mark 8:2 ESV / 36 helpful votes

“I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat.

Proverbs 14:21 ESV / 36 helpful votes

Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.

Deuteronomy 13:17 ESV / 36 helpful votes

None of the devoted things shall stick to your hand, that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show you mercy and have compassion on you and multiply you, as he swore to your fathers,

Isaiah 63:7 ESV / 35 helpful votes

I will recount the steadfast love of the Lord, the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord has granted us, and the great goodness to the house of Israel that he has granted them according to his compassion, according to the abundance of his steadfast love.

Isaiah 49:10 ESV / 35 helpful votes

They shall not hunger or thirst, neither scorching wind nor sun shall strike them, for he who has pity on them will lead them, and by springs of water will guide them.

2 Corinthians 1:1-24 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too. ...

Luke 10:25-37 ESV / 34 helpful votes

And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.” But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” ...

Matthew 14:13-21 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a desolate place by himself. But when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the towns. When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them and healed their sick. Now when it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a desolate place, and the day is now over; send the crowds away to go into the villages and buy food for themselves.” But Jesus said, “They need not go away; you give them something to eat.” They said to him, “We have only five loaves here and two fish.” ...

Zechariah 7:10 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.”

Zechariah 7:9 ESV / 34 helpful votes

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,

Psalm 145:8 ESV / 34 helpful votes

The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

Deuteronomy 28:54 ESV / 34 helpful votes

The man who is the most tender and refined among you will begrudge food to his brother, to the wife he embraces, and to the last of the children whom he has left,

Hebrews 10:34 ESV / 33 helpful votes

For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.

Luke 10:33 ESV / 33 helpful votes

But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion.

Zechariah 7:8-10 ESV / 33 helpful votes

And the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying, “Thus says the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another, do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.”

Jude 1:22 ESV / 32 helpful votes

And have mercy on those who doubt;

Romans 9:15 ESV / 31 helpful votes

For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

Luke 7:13-15 ESV / 31 helpful votes

And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, “Do not weep.” Then he came up and touched the bier, and the bearers stood still. And he said, “Young man, I say to you, arise.” And the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother.

Psalm 77:9 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he in anger shut up his compassion?” Selah

1 Peter 3:2 ESV / 30 helpful votes

When they see your respectful and pure conduct.

Ephesians 4:3 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

1 Corinthians 1:2 ESV / 30 helpful votes

To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 30 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

1 Corinthians 12:25-26 ESV / 29 helpful votes

That there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.

Matthew 9:36-38 ESV / 29 helpful votes

When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”

Lamentations 3:2 ESV / 29 helpful votes

He has driven and brought me into darkness without any light;

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 29 helpful votes

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Isaiah 49:3 ESV / 29 helpful votes

And he said to me, “You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”

Psalm 103:2 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits,

Matthew 6:14-15 ESV / 28 helpful votes

For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Psalm 51:1-19 ESV / 28 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. ...

Luke 7:1-50 ESV / 27 helpful votes

After he had finished all his sayings in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum. Now a centurion had a servant who was sick and at the point of death, who was highly valued by him. When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and heal his servant. And when they came to Jesus, they pleaded with him earnestly, saying, “He is worthy to have you do this for him, for he loves our nation, and he is the one who built us our synagogue.” ...

Deuteronomy 16:17 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you.

Exodus 2:6 ESV / 26 helpful votes

When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby was crying. She took pity on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews' children.”

1 Thessalonians 5:11-14 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing. We ask you, brothers, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you, and to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves. And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.

Job 6:14 ESV / 25 helpful votes

“He who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

1 Corinthians 10:24 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.

Matthew 28:20 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

James 2:5 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?

Psalm 103:1-22 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. ...

Luke 19:41-42 ESV / 22 helpful votes

And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

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