21 Bible Verses About Compassion

In the Bible, compassion is first a description of God. When the Lord passes in front of Moses he proclaims himself “the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness” (Exodus 34:6), Psalm 103:8 repeats the line, and Isaiah 49:15 compares his compassion with a mother’s for her child. The Gospels use one Greek verb, splagchnizomai, for Jesus’ compassion on a crowd (Matthew 14:14) and on a widow at Nain (Luke 7:13), and for the Samaritan…