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Compassion and Sympathy

29 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.

23 sections

Christ Set an Example of

Luke 19:41–42 As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it …

David

Psalm 35:13–14 Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered. …

Elijah

1 Kings 17:18–19 “O man of God,” said the woman to Elijah, “what have you done to me? Have you come to remind me of my iniquity and cause the death of my son?” …

Exercise Towards: Enemies

Psalm 35:13 Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.

Exercise Towards: Saints

1 Corinthians 12:25–26 so that there should be no division in the body, but that its members should have mutual concern for one another. …

Exercise Towards: The Afflicted

Job 6:14 A despairing man should have the kindness of his friend, even if he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
Hebrews 13:3 Remember those in prison as if you were bound with them, and those who are mistreated as if you were suffering with them.

Exercise Towards: The Chastened

Isaiah 22:4 Therefore I said, “Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
Jeremiah 9:1 Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.

Exercise Towards: The Poor

Proverbs 19:17 Kindness to the poor is a loan to the LORD, and He will repay the lender.

Exercise Towards: The Weak

2 Corinthians 11:29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not burn with grief?
Galatians 6:2 Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

Exhortation To

Romans 12:15 Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.
1 Peter 3:8 Finally, all of you, be like-minded and sympathetic, love as brothers, be tenderhearted and humble.

Illustrated

Luke 10:33 But a Samaritan on a journey came upon him, and when he saw him, he had compassion.
Luke 15:20 So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still in the distance, his father saw him and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him.

Inseparable from Love to God

1 John 3:17 If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?
John 4:20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where one must worship is in Jerusalem.”

Jews

John 11:19 and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them in the loss of their brother.

Job

Job 30:25 Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has my soul not grieved for the needy?

Job's Friends

Job 2:11 Now when Job’s three friends— Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite— heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize …

Motives to The Compassion of God

Matthew 13:27 The owner’s servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?’
Matthew 13:33 He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”

Motives to The Sense of Our Infirmities

Hebrews 5:2 He is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and misguided, since he himself is subject to weakness.

Nehemiah

Nehemiah 1:4 When I heard these words, I sat down and wept. I mourned for days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven.

Paul

1 Corinthians 9:22 To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.

Pharaoh's Daughter

Exodus 2:6 When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the little boy was crying. So she had compassion on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew children.”

Promise to Those Who Show

Proverbs 19:17 Kindness to the poor is a loan to the LORD, and He will repay the lender.
Matthew 10:42 And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is My disciple, truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.”

Shobi

2 Samuel 17:27–29 When David came to Mahanaim, he was met by Shobi son of Nahash from Rabbah of the Ammonites, Machir son of Ammiel from Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim. …

The Wicked Made to Feel, for Saints

Psalm 106:46 He made them objects of compassion to all who held them captive.

Related topics

The Compassion and Sympathy of Christ

Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.