Quotes About Compassion

Now please let your servant stay here as my lordís slave in place of the boy. Let him return with his brothers.

For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”

Then Joseph threw his arms around his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept as they embraced.

Joseph kissed each of his brothers as he wept over them. And afterward his brothers talked with him.

Then Joseph fell upon his fatherís face, wept over him, and kissed him.

So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?”

When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the little boy was crying. So she had compassion on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew children.”

Then his sister said to Pharaohís daughter, “Shall I go and call one of the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?”

Pharaohís daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the boy and nursed him.

One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.

The next day Moses went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you attacking your companion?”

And when some shepherds came along and drove them away, Moses rose up to help them and watered their flock.

God saw the Israelites and took notice.

The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.

If a man strikes his manservant or maidservant with a rod, and the servant dies by his hand, he shall surely be punished.

You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

You must not mistreat any widow or orphan.

If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to Me in distress, I will surely hear their cry.

If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.

If you take your neighborís cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,

because his cloak is the only covering he has for his body. What else will he sleep in? And if he cries out to Me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.

And do not show favoritism to a poor man in his lawsuit.

If you encounter your enemyís stray ox or donkey, you must return it to him.

If you see the donkey of one who hates you fallen under its load, do not leave it there; you must help him with it.