Quotes About Compassion

You shall not deny justice to the poor in their lawsuits.

Do not oppress a foreign resident, since you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

but in the seventh year you must let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor among your people may eat from the field and the wild animals may consume what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and olive grove.

So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.

“I will cause all My goodness to pass before you,” the LORD replied, “and I will proclaim My name—the LORD—in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,

This is the law for someone who has a skin disease and cannot afford the cost of his cleansing.”

When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.

You must not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.

You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.

You must not curse the deaf or place a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God. I am the LORD.

You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.

Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.

When a foreigner resides with you in your land, you must not oppress him.

But you must not slaughter an ox or a sheep on the same day as its young.

When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap all the way to the edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the foreign resident. I am the LORD your God.í”

Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.

If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his nearest of kin may come and redeem what his brother has sold.

Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you.

Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you.

You must not lend him your silver at interest or sell him your food for profit.

If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor.

Let him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he is to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.

You are not to rule over them harshly, but you shall fear your God.