Empathy

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

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

When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. Or when one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, — read the full passage →

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; — read the full passage →

But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.

Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession. — read the full passage →

One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee’s house, and sat at the table. — read the full passage →

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. — read the full passage →

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another. — read the full passage →

The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no other commandment greater than these.”

To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind; — read the full passage →

However you did well that you shared in my affliction.

And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food, — read the full passage →

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;

Jesus wept.

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; — read the full passage →

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians, and could not be healed by any, — read the full passage →

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness.

Jesus went out, and he saw a great multitude. He had compassion on them, and healed their sick.

“He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. — read the full passage →

The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the midst, — read the full passage →

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

When he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it, — read the full passage →

Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, — read the full passage →

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

Being moved with compassion, he stretched out his hand, and touched him, and said to him, “I want to. Be made clean.”

They brought to him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech. They begged him to lay his hand on him. — read the full passage →

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep. — read the full passage →

Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.

When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

Soon afterwards, he went to a city called Nain. Many of his disciples, along with a great multitude, went with him. — read the full passage →

who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks. — read the full passage →

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

brought them out, and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” — read the full passage →

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

He lived in the tombs. Nobody could bind him any more, not even with chains, — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world. — read the full passage →