Bible Verses About Compassion
Verses about God's compassion for us, and our call to show mercy and care to others.
Compassion is the emotion that moves us to action. When Jesus saw the crowds, He was moved with compassion — and then He healed, fed, and taught them. These Bible verses on compassion reveal a God whose mercies are new every morning, who is slow to anger and rich in love. They also call us to reflect that compassion outward: to see people as God sees them, to close not our hearts from a brother in need, to bear one another's burdens. Compassion is not just a feeling — it is the shape of love in the world.
“He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?”
Micah 6:8
More Verses for Compassion
“Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;”
Colossians 3:12
“He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.”
Proverbs 19:17
“Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.”
Isaiah 1:17
“Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.”
Psalm 82:3
“And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”
Matthew 25:40
“Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.”
Galatians 6:2
“But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.”
Matthew 9:36
“It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.”
Lamentations 3:22-23
“But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?”
1 John 3:17
“The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.”
Psalm 103:8
“Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.”
Matthew 5:7
“Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:”
Zechariah 7:9
“Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.”
2 Corinthians 1:3-4
“Jesus wept.”
John 11:35
“To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.”
1 Corinthians 9:22
“Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.”
Psalm 103:13
“And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.”
Luke 15:20
“But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind.”
Luke 14:13
“Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.”
Proverbs 31:8
“The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.”
Proverbs 22:2
“My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.”
James 2:1
“For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.”
Lamentations 3:33
“Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.”
Romans 12:15
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