100 Bible Verses about Pity

Deuteronomy 7:16 ESV / 259 helpful votes

And you shall consume all the peoples that the Lord your God will give over to you. Your eye shall not pity them, neither shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.

Proverbs 19:17 ESV / 253 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 63:9 ESV / 223 helpful votes

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them; in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

Isaiah 13:18 ESV / 209 helpful votes

Their bows will slaughter the young men; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; their eyes will not pity children.

Deuteronomy 13:8 ESV / 202 helpful votes

You shall not yield to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him.

Job 19:21 ESV / 193 helpful votes

Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!

Proverbs 28:8 ESV / 189 helpful votes

Whoever multiplies his wealth by interest and profit gathers it for him who is generous to the poor.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 178 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Psalm 69:20 ESV / 178 helpful votes

Reproaches have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 175 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Deuteronomy 19:21 ESV / 172 helpful votes

Your eye shall not pity. It shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

John 3:16 ESV / 167 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

James 5:11 ESV / 165 helpful votes

Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.

Deuteronomy 25:12 ESV / 163 helpful votes

Then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall have no pity.

Deuteronomy 19:13 ESV / 163 helpful votes

Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, so that it may be well with you.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 162 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Matthew 18:33 ESV / 158 helpful votes

And should not you have had mercy on your fellow servant, as I had mercy on you?’

Psalm 103:13 ESV / 157 helpful votes

As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.

Ezekiel 7:4 ESV / 151 helpful votes

And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity, but I will punish you for your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 146 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 145 helpful votes

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Job 6:14 ESV / 140 helpful votes

“He who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

Joel 2:18 ESV / 139 helpful votes

Then the Lord became jealous for his land and had pity on his people.

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 137 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Ezekiel 36:21 ESV / 128 helpful votes

But I had concern for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they came.

James 5:13 ESV / 122 helpful votes

Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise.

Ezekiel 9:5 ESV / 121 helpful votes

And to the others he said in my hearing, “Pass through the city after him, and strike. Your eye shall not spare, and you shall show no pity.

Ezekiel 7:9 ESV / 121 helpful votes

And my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. I will punish you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the Lord, who strikes.

Ezekiel 9:10 ESV / 120 helpful votes

As for me, my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity; I will bring their deeds upon their heads.”

Ezekiel 8:18 ESV / 120 helpful votes

Therefore I will act in wrath. My eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. And though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.”

Matthew 11:28-30 ESV / 115 helpful votes

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

2 Corinthians 7:9-10 ESV / 114 helpful votes

As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting. For you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us. For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.

Jeremiah 30:15 ESV / 114 helpful votes

Why do you cry out over your hurt? Your pain is incurable. Because your guilt is great, because your sins are flagrant, I have done these things to you.

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 113 helpful votes

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Ezekiel 5:11 ESV / 111 helpful votes

Therefore, as I live, declares the Lord God, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will withdraw. My eye will not spare, and I will have no pity.

Jeremiah 13:14 ESV / 111 helpful votes

And I will dash them one against another, fathers and sons together, declares the Lord. I will not pity or spare or have compassion, that I should not destroy them.’”

1 Thessalonians 5:18 ESV / 109 helpful votes

Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Micah 6:8 ESV / 109 helpful votes

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

1 John 1:9 ESV / 108 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Zechariah 11:6 ESV / 108 helpful votes

For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of this land, declares the Lord. Behold, I will cause each of them to fall into the hand of his neighbor, and each into the hand of his king, and they shall crush the land, and I will deliver none from their hand.”

James 4:7 ESV / 107 helpful votes

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

1 John 4:19-21 ESV / 106 helpful votes

We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.

James 1:1-27 ESV / 106 helpful votes

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. ...

Isaiah 61:8 ESV / 106 helpful votes

For I the Lord love justice; I hate robbery and wrong; I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

Psalm 135:14 ESV / 106 helpful votes

For the Lord will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants.

Jonah 4:10 ESV / 104 helpful votes

And the Lord said, “You pity the plant, for which you did not labor, nor did you make it grow, which came into being in a night and perished in a night.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 102 helpful votes

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

1 Peter 3:8 ESV / 101 helpful votes

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

Matthew 5:7 ESV / 100 helpful votes

“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.

Amos 1:11 ESV / 99 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and cast off all pity, and his anger tore perpetually, and he kept his wrath forever.

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 98 helpful votes

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Luke 17:13 ESV / 96 helpful votes

And lifted up their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.”

Mark 9:22 ESV / 96 helpful votes

And it has often cast him into fire and into water, to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”

John 10:10 ESV / 94 helpful votes

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

Job 19:21-22 ESV / 92 helpful votes

Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me! Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?

Romans 10:9 ESV / 91 helpful votes

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 89 helpful votes

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

1 Corinthians 13:4-6 ESV / 89 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.

John 14:15 ESV / 89 helpful votes

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 89 helpful votes

If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

1 Peter 1:13 ESV / 88 helpful votes

Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 85 helpful votes

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 84 helpful votes

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Psalm 51:12 ESV / 84 helpful votes

Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 84 helpful votes

Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

Jude 1:9 ESV / 79 helpful votes

But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”

John 15:13 ESV / 79 helpful votes

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Psalm 23:1 ESV / 75 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 72 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 72 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 72 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 72 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

Psalm 118:24 ESV / 72 helpful votes

This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 71 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Colossians 2:18 ESV / 67 helpful votes

Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind,

Romans 8:28 ESV / 66 helpful votes

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Psalm 72:13 ESV / 66 helpful votes

He has pity on the weak and the needy, and saves the lives of the needy.

2 Kings 2:23-24 ESV / 66 helpful votes

He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!” And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.

Matthew 16:24-25 ESV / 64 helpful votes

Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

Matthew 13:39 ESV / 64 helpful votes

And the enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.

Hosea 9:14 ESV / 64 helpful votes

Give them, O Lord— what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

Ezekiel 9:6 ESV / 64 helpful votes

Kill old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women, but touch no one on whom is the mark. And begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the house.

Lamentations 2:20 ESV / 64 helpful votes

Look, O Lord, and see! With whom have you dealt thus? Should women eat the fruit of their womb, the children of their tender care? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Psalm 10:1 ESV / 62 helpful votes

Why, O Lord, do you stand far away? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

1 Kings 19:4 ESV / 62 helpful votes

But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

Revelation 18:9-19 ESV / 61 helpful votes

And the kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her, will weep and wail over her when they see the smoke of her burning. They will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say, “Alas! Alas! You great city, you mighty city, Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.” And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn for her, since no one buys their cargo anymore, cargo of gold, silver, jewels, pearls, fine linen, purple cloth, silk, scarlet cloth, all kinds of scented wood, all kinds of articles of ivory, all kinds of articles of costly wood, bronze, iron and marble, cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and slaves, that is, human souls. ...

1 Peter 4:13 ESV / 61 helpful votes

But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.

James 1:2-3 ESV / 61 helpful votes

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 56 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

1 Corinthians 10:10-11 ESV / 56 helpful votes

Nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer. Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come.

Mark 16:16 ESV / 56 helpful votes

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

Jonah 4:1-5 ESV / 56 helpful votes

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. And he prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster. Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.” And the Lord said, “Do you do well to be angry?” Jonah went out of the city and sat to the east of the city and made a booth for himself there. He sat under it in the shade, till he should see what would become of the city.

Lamentations 3:19-26 ESV / 56 helpful votes

Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall! My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me. But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. ...

Lamentations 3:1-18 ESV / 56 helpful votes

I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of his wrath; he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light; surely against me he turns his hand again and again the whole day long. He has made my flesh and my skin waste away; he has broken my bones; he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation; ...

Jeremiah 20:7-10 ESV / 56 helpful votes

O Lord, you have deceived me, and I was deceived; you are stronger than I, and you have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all the day; everyone mocks me. For whenever I speak, I cry out, I shout, “Violence and destruction!” For the word of the Lord has become for me a reproach and derision all day long. If I say, “I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name,” there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot. For I hear many whispering. Terror is on every side! “Denounce him! Let us denounce him!” say all my close friends, watching for my fall. “Perhaps he will be deceived; then we can overcome him and take our revenge on him.”

Jeremiah 15:18 ESV / 56 helpful votes

Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you be to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?

Jeremiah 15:10 ESV / 56 helpful votes

Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.

Isaiah 38:2-3 ESV / 56 helpful votes

Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, and said, “Please, O Lord, remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Psalm 137:1-9 ESV / 56 helpful votes

By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion. On the willows there we hung up our lyres. For there our captors required of us songs, and our tormentors, mirth, saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!” How shall we sing the Lord's song in a foreign land? If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill! ...

Psalm 106:7 ESV / 56 helpful votes

Our fathers, when they were in Egypt, did not consider your wondrous works; they did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love, but rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.

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