Quotes about Compassion
you are to cut off her hand. You must show her no pity.
— Deuteronomy 25:12
‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
— Deuteronomy 27:19
a ruthless nation with no respect for the old and no pity for the young.
— Deuteronomy 28:50
then He will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you from all the nations to which the LORD your God has scattered you.
— Deuteronomy 30:3
For the LORD will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one remains, slave or free.
— Deuteronomy 32:36
She has said, ‘Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the harvesters.’ So she came out and has continued from morning until now, except that she rested a short time in the shelter.”
— Ruth 2:7
Boaz replied, “I have been made fully aware of all you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you did not know before.
— Ruth 2:11
When Ruth got up to glean, Boaz ordered his young men, “Even if she gathers among the sheaves, do not insult her.
— Ruth 2:15
Rather, pull out for her some stalks from the bundles and leave them for her to gather. Do not rebuke her.”
— Ruth 2:16
Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the land from Naomi and also from Ruth the Moabitess, you must also acquire the widow of the deceased in order to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance.”
— Ruth 4:5
And Naomi took the child, placed him on her lap, and became a nurse to him.
— Ruth 4:16
And he warned the Kenites, “Since you showed kindness to all the Israelites when they came up out of Egypt, go on and get away from the Amalekites. Otherwise I will sweep you away with them.” So the Kenites moved away from the Amalekites.
— 1 Samuel 15:6