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.

Yahweh, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you? — read the full passage →

You number my wanderings. You put my tears into your bottle. Aren’t they in your book?

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

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.

I didn’t sit in the assembly of those who make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of your hand; for you have filled me with indignation.

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.”

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

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 →

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

However you did well that you shared in my affliction.

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him. — read the full passage →

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.

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.”

But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

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

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

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 →

For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

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.

Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

Yahweh is Gracious and righteous. Yes, our God is merciful.

Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?

“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.

Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown;

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

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

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

“If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;

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.

Sing, heavens; and be joyful, earth; and break out into singing, mountains: for Yahweh has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted.

“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God. — read the full passage →

He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim Yahweh’s name before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”

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.

As for me, I will call on God. Yahweh will save me. — read the full passage →

Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this your great people?” — read the full passage →

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 →

He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy.

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.

So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

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

Therefore love the foreigner; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

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 →

“‘If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. — 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 →

“You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

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

When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captive. — 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,

God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps. — read the full passage →

But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns.” — read the full passage →

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 →