Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,
Today it refers to a person or circumstance that arouses pity in the heart. The translation should be, "full of pity." The Greek word means "tenderhearted." The first century was cold and hard-hearted. Christianity, with its tenderizing influence upon the heart, had not had time nor opportunity yet to make much of an impact upon the calloused heart of man. Today we have as a result of its benign influence hospitals, homes for the aged, charities of one sort or another. And yet how callous our hearts are to another’s pain. Only the overflowing love of God and the experience of much suffering in one’s own life can fit us to really sympathize with others in the sense of feeling their pain ourselves, thus suffering with them (Wuest, I Peter 86).