The best Bible verses for compassion (MSG) include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for compassion (MSG), each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"Look down from heaven, look at us! Look out the window of your holy and magnificent house! Whatever happened to your passion, your famous mighty acts, Your heartfelt pity, your compassion? Why are you holding back?"Isaiah 63:15
"Look down from heaven, look at us! Look out the window of your holy and magnificent house! Whatever happened to your passion, your famous mighty acts, Your heartfelt pity, your compassion? Why are you holding back?"Isaiah 63:15
"What a gift life is to those who stay the course! You've heard, of course, of Job's staying power, and you know how God brought it all together for him at the end. That's because God cares, cares right down to the last detail."James 5:11
"Once I've pulled the bad neighbors out, I will relent and take them tenderly to my heart and put them back where they belong, put each of them back in their home country, on their family farms."Jeremiah 12:15
"And then I'll smash them, smash the wine-filled jugs—old and young alike. Nothing will stop me. Not an ounce of pity or mercy or compassion will slow me down. Every last drunken jug of them will be smashed!' ""Jeremiah 13:14
""You left me, remember?" God's Decree. "You turned your back and walked out. So I will grab you and hit you hard. I'm tired of letting you off the hook."Jeremiah 15:6
""Again, God's Message: " 'I'll turn things around for Jacob. I'll compassionately come in and rebuild homes. The town will be rebuilt on its old foundations; the mansions will be splendid again."Jeremiah 30:18
"I'll pour mercy on you. What's more, he will show you mercy! He'll let you come back to your very own land.'"Jeremiah 42:12
"If he works severely, he also works tenderly. His stockpiles of loyal love are immense."Lamentations 3:32
"Nice and kindly women boiled their own children for supper. This was the only food in town when my dear people were broken."Lamentations 4:10
"He got right up and went home to his father. "When he was still a long way off, his father saw him. His heart pounding, he ran out, embraced him, and kissed him."Luke 15:20
"When Jesus arrived, he saw this huge crowd. At the sight of them, his heart broke—like sheep with no shepherd they were. He went right to work teaching them."Mark 6:34
""This crowd is breaking my heart. They have stuck with me for three days, and now they have nothing to eat."Mark 8:2
"When he looked out over the crowds, his heart broke. So confused and aimless they were, like sheep with no shepherd."Matthew 9:36
Translations differ in what they optimise for. Some follow the original wording closely at the cost of a natural English sentence; others read smoothly and make interpretive choices to get there. Neither is wrong, but they produce noticeably different verses.
Each of the 15 verses below is shown in the translation you asked for, and every verse links to a page comparing all six side by side — which is usually the fastest way to see where the translators disagreed.
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The most-cited Bible verses for compassion (MSG) are Isaiah 63:15, James 5:11, Jeremiah 12:15. This page collects 15 of them, each with its full passage, context and the text in six translations.
Read the verse in its surrounding passage before you use it — a verse that fits in isolation sometimes says something different in context. Compare two translations where the wording is unclear, and pick for the person who will read it rather than for the theme.
Scripture returns to compassion (MSG) across both testaments rather than settling it in one passage, which is why the verses on this page do not all say the same thing. Read together they give a fuller answer than any single verse does.
There is no single best translation. The NIV and NLT read most naturally and communicate well to someone outside the church; the ESV and NASB stay closer to the original wording; the KJV carries the phrasing most people recognise. Every verse here links to a page showing all six side by side.
More than any page can list. This one carries the 15 that are most often turned to for compassion (MSG), chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.