Even in darkness light dawns for the upright, for the gracious and compassionate and righteous man.
Psalm 112:4
We are to be men of compassion. An upright man is a compassionate man.
As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him;
Psalm 103:13
The first requirement to receive compassion from God the Father is to fear Him. Fearing God is refusing evil in our lives. We have to be like Joseph who told Potiphar’s wife, “How can I do this great evil before God?” That is the fear of God - refusing to do evil.
But as soon as they were at rest, they again did what was evil in your sight. Then you abandoned them to the hand of their enemies so that they ruled over them. And when they cried out to you again, you heard from heaven, and in your compassion you delivered them time after time
Nehemiah 9:28
Scorn has broken my heart and has left me helpless; I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found none.
Psalm 69:20
Sympathy is closely linked with compassion. Some people regard sympathy as of no benefit. And in due course they throw away compassion too. Sympathy is conveying our feelings of understanding pain and hardship of the other person to him. In many ways sympathy is beneficial.
You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere men?
1 Corinthians 3:3
To be jealous of others is to be worldly. We are not called to be mere men. We are to be different because of the power of the Holy Spirit in us.