Empathy

Rejoice with them that rejoice; weep with them that weep.

Finally, be ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded:

and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

All things therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them: for this is the law and the prophets.

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

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

And whether one member suffereth, all the members suffer with it; or one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

Put on therefore, as God’s elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering;

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

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

doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;

For we have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but one that hath been in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

Blessedbethe 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 distressed and scattered, as sheep not having a shepherd.

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

And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he entered into the Pharisee’s house, and sat down to meat. — read the full passage →

A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. — read the full passage →

Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; them that are ill-treated, as being yourselves also in the body.

casting all your anxiety upon him, because he careth for you.

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

But whoso hath the world’s goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him?

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

The second is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

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

make full my joy, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind; — read the full passage →

Howbeit ye did well that ye had fellowship with my affliction.

If a brother or sister be naked and in lack of daily food, — read the full passage →

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

Jesus wept.

And a second like unto it is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Put on therefore, as God’s elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering; — read the full passage →

above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

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

And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, who had spent all her living upon physicians, and could not be healed of any, — read the full passage →

Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is caused to stumble, and I burn not?

according as each hath received a gift, ministering it among yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;

who can bear gently with the ignorant and erring, for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity;

And he came forth, and saw a great multitude, and he had compassion on them, and healed their sick.

And he arose, and came to his father. But while he was yet afar 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, in due season Christ died for the ungodly. — read the full passage →

And the scribes and the Pharisees bring a woman taken in adultery; and having set her in the midst, — read the full passage →

Behold, we call them blessed that endured: ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, how that the Lord is full of pity, and merciful.

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

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

But whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which worketh in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer:

And when he drew nigh, he saw the city and wept over it, — read the full passage →

Since then the children are sharers in flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner partook of the same; that through death he might bring to nought him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; — read the full passage →

And in like manner the Spirit also helpeth our infirmity: for we know not how to pray as we ought; but the Spirit himself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered;

And being moved with compassion, he stretched forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou made clean.

And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to lay his hand upon him. — read the full passage →

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring ye 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 them that rejoice; weep with them that weep. — read the full passage →

and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.

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

And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Beroea: who when they were come thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. — read the full passage →

And it came to pass soon afterwards, that he went to a city called Nain; and his disciples went with him, and a great multitude. — read the full passage →

who, having received such a charge, cast them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks. — read the full passage →

Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned:—

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

If then ye 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 →

who had his dwelling in the tombs: and no man could any more bind him, no, not with a chain; — read the full passage →

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

that ye 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 →