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14 Bible Verses About Empathy & Understanding

Romans 12:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.

1 Peter 3:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Hebrews 4:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.

Colossians 3:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,

Philippians 2:3-4 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

2 Corinthians 1:3-4 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

John 13:34-35 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Luke 6:36 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Zechariah 7:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,

Proverbs 19:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.

Job 2:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

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

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