Empathy

to rejoice with the rejoicing, and to weep with the weeping,

And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous,

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

`All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,

and whether one member doth suffer, suffer with <FI>it<Fi> do all the members, or one member is glorified, rejoice with <FI>it<Fi> do all the members;

Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering,

Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, did groan in the spirit, and troubled himself, and he said, — read the full passage →

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves--

for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but <FI>one<Fi> tempted in all things in like manner--apart from sin;

Blessed <FI>is<Fi> God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the mercies, and God of all comfort, — read the full passage →

And having seen the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, that they were faint and cast aside, as sheep not having a shepherd,

Having, then, a great chief priest passed through the heavens--Jesus the Son of God--may we hold fast the profession, — read the full passage →

And a certain one of the Pharisees was asking him that he might eat with him, and having gone into the house of the Pharisee he reclined (at meat), — read the full passage →

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another; — read the full passage →

be mindful of those in bonds, as having been bound with them, of those maltreated, as also yourselves being in the body;

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

And we ought--we who are strong--to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves;

and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him--how doth the love of God remain in him?

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

and the second <FI>is<Fi> like <FI>it<Fi> , this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; --greater than these there is no other command.'

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

fulfil ye my joy, that ye may mind the same thing--having the same love--of one soul--minding the one thing, — read the full passage →

but ye did well, having communicated with my tribulation;

and if a brother or sister may be naked, and may be destitute of the daily food, — read the full passage →

Blessed <FI>is<Fi> God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the mercies, and God of all comfort,

Jesus wept.

and the second <FI>is<Fi> like to it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;

in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;

and as ye wish that men may do to you, do ye also to them in like manner;

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering, — read the full passage →

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

and a woman, having an issue of blood for twelve years, who, having spent on physicians all her living, was not able to be healed by any, — read the full passage →

Who is infirm, and I am not infirm? who is stumbled, and I am not fired;

each, according as he received a gift, to one another ministering it, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;

able to be gentle to those ignorant and going astray, since himself also is compassed with infirmity;

And Jesus having come forth, saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion upon them, and did heal their infirm;

`And having risen, he went unto his own father, and he being yet far distant, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and having ran he fell upon his neck and kissed him;

For in our being still ailing, Christ in due time did die for the impious; — read the full passage →

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

lo, we call happy those who are enduring; the endurance of Job ye heard of, and the end of the Lord ye have seen, that very compassionate is the Lord, and pitying.

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

for ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that because of you he became poor--being rich, that ye by that poverty may become rich.

and whether we be in tribulation, <FI>it is<Fi> for your comfort and salvation, that is wrought in the enduring of the same sufferings that we also suffer; whether we are comforted, <FI>it is<Fi> for your comfort and salvation;

And when he came nigh, having seen the city, he wept over it, — read the full passage →

Seeing, then, the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself also in like manner did take part of the same, that through death he might destroy him having the power of death--that is, the devil-- — read the full passage →

And, in like manner also, the Spirit doth help our weaknesses; for, what we may pray for, as it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> , we have not known, but the Spirit himself doth make intercession for us with groanings unutterable,

And Jesus having been moved with compassion, having stretched forth the hand, touched him, and saith to him, `I will; be thou cleansed;'

and they bring to him a deaf, stuttering man, and they call on him that he may put the hand on him. — read the full passage →

all things I did shew you, that, thus labouring, it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> to partake with the ailing, to be mindful also of the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.'

to rejoice with the rejoicing, and to weep with the weeping, — read the full passage →

and many of the Jews had come unto Martha and Mary, that they might comfort them concerning their brother;

Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, did groan in the spirit, and troubled himself, and he said,

And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews; — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, on the morrow, he was going on to a city called Nain, and there were going with him many of his disciples, and a great multitude, — read the full passage →

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

because of this, even as through one man the sin did enter into the world, and through the sin the death; and thus to all men the death did pass through, for that all did sin;

and having brought them forth, said, `Sirs, what must I do--that I may be saved?' — read the full passage →

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

who had his dwelling in the tombs, and not even with chains was any one able to bind him, — read the full passage →

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

that ye were at that time apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God, in the world; — read the full passage →