Topic
SYMPATHY
General scriptures concerning JOB 2:11-13; 6:14; 22:29; ECC 7:2; PHP 2:1,2; JAS 1:27; 1PE 3:8
Passages on this topic · 10
- Job 2:11
Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.
- Job 2:12
When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.
- Job 2:13
So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.
- Job 6:14
“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
- Job 22:29
When they cast down, you shall say, ‘be lifted up.’ He will save the humble person.
- Ecclesiastes 7:2
It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart.
- Philippians 2:1
If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,
- Philippians 2:2
make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;
- James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
- 1 Peter 3:8
Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,
From Nave’s Topical Bible (public domain).