Proverbs 12:10

A righteous person cares even for his animals, but the wicked are cruel even in their mercy. Genuine righteousness extends compassion to all of life.

Cross-references · 10

• Deut 25:4You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.
• Num 22:28–32Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?”
• Gen 33:13–14Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.
• Jas 2:13–16For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
• 1 Jn 3:17But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?
• John 4:11The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water?
• John 19:31–32Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn’t remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
• Judg 1:7Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their big toes cut off, scavenged under my table. As I have done, so God has done to me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
• 1 Sam 11:2Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “On this condition I will make it with you, that all your right eyes be gouged out. I will make this dishonor all Israel.”
• Gen 37:26–28Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

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