Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Cruelty » General references to
Give me not to the will of my adversaries, For risen against me have false witnesses, And they breathe out violence to me.
God's Promises » Special promises to children, examples of » To the merciful
For, if ye may forgive men their trespasses He also will forgive you -- your Father who is in the heavens;
And dost bring out to the hungry thy soul, And the afflicted soul dost satisfy, Then risen in the darkness hath thy light, And thy thick darkness is as noon.
Jehovah supporteth on a couch of sickness, All his bed Thou hast turned in his weakness.
Happy the kind -- because they shall find kindness.
He hath scattered -- hath given to the needy, His righteousness is standing for ever, His horn is exalted with honour.
'Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed, and shaken, and running over, they shall give into your bosom; for with that measure with which ye measure, it shall be measured to you again.'
And the king answering, shall say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did it to one of these my brethren -- the least -- to me ye did it.
'Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and thy sins by righteousness break off, and thy perversity by pitying the poor, lo, it is a lengthening of thine ease.
An oppressor of the poor reproacheth his Maker, And whoso is honouring Him Is favouring the needy.
Mercy » Man commanded to exercise
Happy the kind -- because they shall find kindness.
He hath declared to thee, O man, what is good; Yea, what is Jehovah requiring of thee, Except -- to do judgment, and love kindness, And lowly to walk with thy God?
Verse Concepts
be ye therefore merciful, as also your Father is merciful.
for the judgment without kindness is to him not having done kindness, and exult doth kindness over judgment.
And thou, through thy God, dost turn, Kindness and judgment keep thou, And wait on thy God continually.
Let not kindness and truth forsake thee, Bind them on thy neck, Write them on the tablet of thy heart,