The best Bible verses for compassion short include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for compassion short, each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"Their bows will strike down the young men; they will have no mercy on infants nor will they look with compassion on children."Isaiah 13:18
"Their bows will strike down the young men; they will have no mercy on infants nor will they look with compassion on children."Isaiah 13:18
"“Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!"Isaiah 49:15
"I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the Lord your Redeemer."Isaiah 54:8
"“Foreigners will rebuild your walls, and their kings will serve you. Though in anger I struck you, in favor I will show you compassion."Isaiah 60:10
"But after I uproot them, I will again have compassion and will bring each of them back to his own inheritance and his own country."Jeremiah 12:15
"I will show you compassion so that he will have compassion on you and restore you to your land.’"Jeremiah 42:12
"With their own hands compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food when my people were destroyed."Lamentations 4:10
"Filled with compassion, Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!”"Mark 1:41
"“I have compassion for these people; they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat."Mark 8:2
"When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd."Matthew 9:36
"Jesus had compassion on them and touched their eyes. Immediately they received their sight and followed him."Matthew 20:34
"You will again have compassion on us; you will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea."Micah 7:19
"Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions."Psalms 51:1
"But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness."Psalms 86:15
"You will arise and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show favor to her; the appointed time has come."Psalms 102:13
Length decides almost everything here. A verse that reads beautifully on a page can be unreadable once it is set in a small typeface, wrapped around a curve, or cropped to a square. The 15 verses below were chosen for brevity first — most run under a dozen words — so they stay legible at the size you will actually use them.
Self-contained meaning matters just as much. "Do not be anxious about anything" carries its full sense alone; a verse that opens with "Therefore" or "But" does not, and it will read as a fragment to anyone who encounters it without the surrounding passage. Every verse here stands on its own.
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The most-cited Bible verses for compassion short are Isaiah 13:18, Isaiah 49:15, Isaiah 54:8. 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 short 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 short, chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.