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;

Do not I hate, Jehovah, those hating Thee? And with Thy withstanders grieve myself? — read the full passage →

My wandering Thou hast counted, Thou--place Thou my tear in Thy bottle, Are they not in Thy book?

O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat;

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;

I have not sat in an assembly of deriders, Nor do I exult, because of thy hand, --Alone I have sat, For <FI>with<Fi> indignation Thou hast filled me.

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.'

Near <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah to the broken of heart, And the bruised of spirit He saveth.

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 →

He hath declared to thee, O man, what <FI>is<Fi> good; Yea, what is Jehovah requiring of thee, Except--to do judgment, and love kindness, And lowly to walk with thy God?

but ye did well, having communicated with my tribulation;

As a father hath mercy on sons, Jehovah hath mercy on those fearing Him. — read the full passage →

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;

And three of the friends of Job hear of all this evil that hath come upon him, and they come in each from his place--Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite--and they are met together to come in to bemoan him, and to comfort him;

As one whom his mother comforteth, so do I comfort you, Yea, in Jerusalem ye are comforted.

And he is pierced for our transgressions, Bruised for our iniquities, The chastisement of our peace <FI>is<Fi> on him, And by his bruise there is healing to us.

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

Whoso is shutting his ear from the cry of the poor, He also doth cry, and is not answered.

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 →

For He hath known our frame, Remembering that we <FI>are<Fi> dust.

To the Overseer. --By sons of Korah. `For the Virgins.' --A song. God <FI>is<Fi> to us a refuge and strength, A help in adversities found most surely.

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 therefore doth wait Jehovah to favour you, And therefore He is exalted to pity you, For a God of judgment <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah, O the blessedness of all waiting for Him.

Gracious <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah, and righteous, Yea, our God <FI>is<Fi> merciful,

Did not I weep for him whose day is hard? Grieved hath my soul for the needy.

`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;

In the falling of thine enemy rejoice not, And in his stumbling let not thy heart be joyful,

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

As a father hath mercy on sons, Jehovah hath mercy on those fearing Him.

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 →

If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him,

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;

Sing, O heavens, and joy, O earth, And break forth, O mountains, with singing, For comforted hath Jehovah His people, And His afflicted ones He doth pity.

Comfort ye, comfort ye, My people, saith your God. — read the full passage →

and He saith, `I cause all My goodness to pass before thy face, and have called concerning the Name of Jehovah before thee, and favoured him whom I favour, and loved him whom I love.'

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,

I--to God I call, and Jehovah saveth me. — read the full passage →

As to these four lads, God hath given to them knowledge and understanding in every <FI>kind of<Fi> literature, and wisdom; and Daniel hath given instruction about every <FI>kind of<Fi> vision and dreams.

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — read the full passage →

and Thou hast given to Thy servant an understanding heart, to judge Thy people, to discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this Thy great people?' — read the full passage →

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 →

He hath pity on the poor and needy, And the souls of the needy he saveth,

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;

And they sit with him on the earth seven days and seven nights, and there is none speaking unto him a word when they have seen that the pain hath been very great.

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 ye have loved the sojourner, for sojourners ye were in the land of Egypt.

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 →

`And when a sojourner sojourneth with thee in your land, thou dost not oppress him; — 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 →

`And a sojourner thou dost not oppress, and ye--ye have known the soul of the sojourner, for sojourners ye have been in the land of Egypt.

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

And David cometh in--and his men--unto the city, and lo, burnt with fire, and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters have been taken captive! — 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,

A Psalm of Asaph. O God, nations have come into Thy inheritance, They have defiled Thy holy temple, They made Jerusalem become heaps, — read the full passage →

Only--his flesh for him is pained, And his soul for him doth mourn.' — read the full passage →

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 →