Quotes about Compassion
The righteous consider the cause of the poor, but the wicked have no regard for such concerns.
- Proverbs 29:7
The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: The LORD gives light to the eyes of both.
- Proverbs 29:13
Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed.
- Proverbs 31:8
Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the poor and needy.
- Proverbs 31:9
She opens her arms to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy.
- Proverbs 31:20
Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.
- Ecclesiastes 4:1
For you know in your heart that many times you yourself have cursed others.
- Ecclesiastes 7:22
Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”
- Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”
- Isaiah 1:17
Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.
- Isaiah 1:23
Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
- Isaiah 3:15
Therefore the Lord takes no pleasure in their young men; He has no compassion on their fatherless and widows. For every one of them is godless and wicked, and every mouth speaks folly. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.
- Isaiah 9:17