ROM. XV, 4. For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. 5. GENTLENESS. (1.) _Must be kind._ LUKE XIX, 41. And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, 42. Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. ROM. XII, 15. Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep. 1 PETER II, 8. If ye fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well. JOB VI, 14. To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. HEB. XIII, 3. Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body. ISAIAH XXII, 4. Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labor not to comfort me; because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people. JER. IX, 1. O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! PSALM XXXV, 13. But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting, and my prayer returned unto mine own bosom. PROV. XIX, 17. He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again. 2 COR. XI, 29. Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not? GAL. VI, 2. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. 1 COR. XII, 25. That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. 26. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honored, all the members rejoice with it. 1 JOHN III, 17. But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? LUKE XV, 20. And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. EX. II, 6. And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children. 2 SAM. XVII, 27. And it came to pass, when David was come to Mohanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim, 28. Brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse, 29. And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.