Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Cruelty » General references to
Deliver me not over unto the will of my enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me and such as breathe out cruelty.
The merciful man does good to his own soul, but the cruel man troubles his own flesh.
God's Promises » Special promises to children, examples of » To the merciful
For if ye set men free from their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also set you free;
and if thou pour out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:
The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing; thou wilt soften all his bed in his sickness.
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
Pe He has dispersed; he has given to the poor; Tzaddi his righteousness endures for ever; Koph his horn shall be exalted in glory.
give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down and shaken together and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye measure out it shall be measured to you again.
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brothers, ye have done it unto me.
Therefore, O king, approve my counsel and redeem thy sins with righteousness and thine iniquities with mercies unto the poor: behold the medicine for thy sin.
The merciful man does good to his own soul, but the cruel man troubles his own flesh.
He that oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker, but he that has mercy on the poor, honours him.
Mercy » Man commanded to exercise
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
He has declared unto thee, O man, what is good and what the LORD requires of thee: only to do right judgment, and to love mercy, and to humble thyself to walk with thy God.
Verse Concepts
The merciful man does good to his own soul, but the cruel man troubles his own flesh.
Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
For judgment without mercy shall be done unto the one that has shown no mercy; and mercy boasts against judgment.
Therefore be thou converted unto thy God; keep mercy and judgment, and in thy God wait continually.
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee; bind them about thy neck; write them upon the tablet of thine heart:
Mercy » Beneficial to those who exercise
The merciful man does good to his own soul, but the cruel man troubles his own flesh.