49 Bible Verses about Mercy

Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving kindness. According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am withered away. O LORD, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

O LORD, I have heard the report of thee, and am afraid. O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years. In the midst of the years make it known. In wrath remember mercy.

O LORD, according to all thy righteousness, let thine anger and thy wrath, I pray thee, be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain. Because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy peopl

But the tax collector, having stood from afar, would not even lift his eyes to the sky, but beat upon his breast, saying, God, be thou merciful to me a sinful man.

LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.

keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and who will by no means clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, upon the th

Let the wicked man forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. And let him return to LORD, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

I will keep my loving kindness for him for evermore. And my covenant shall stand fast with him.

I was a stranger, and ye did not take me in, naked, and ye did not clothe me, weak, and in prison, and ye did not come to help me.

because he did not remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, and the broken in heart, to kill.

He therefore who knows to do good, and is not doing it, to him it is sin.

He who stops his ears at the cry of a poor man, he also shall cry, but shall not be heard.

Ye have not strengthened the diseased, nor have ye healed that which was sick, nor have ye bound up that which was broken, nor have ye brought back that which was driven away, nor have ye sought that which was lost, but ye have rul

These men are waterless wells, and clouds driven by a fierce wind, for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved into an age.

The clouds poured out water. The skies sent out a sound. Thine arrows also went abroad.

LORD, when thou went forth out of Seir, when thou marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens also dropped, yea, the clouds dropped water.

Do thou know the balancing of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?

He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them.

Blessed are the merciful, because they will obtain mercy.

He has shown thee, O man, what is good. And what does LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?

The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.

Become ye therefore merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

For the judgment is merciless to him who did no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Blessed are the merciful, because they will obtain mercy.

He who despises his neighbor sins, but he who has pity on the poor, happy is he.

LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands he has rewarded me. For I have kept the ways of LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God. For all his ordinances were before me. And as for his statutes, I did not depart from them. read more.
I was also perfect toward him, and I kept myself from my iniquity. Therefore LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in his eyesight. With the merciful thou will show thyself merciful. With the perfect man thou will show thyself perfect.

Therefore LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight. With the merciful thou will show thyself merciful. With the perfect man thou will show thyself perfect.

The righteous man perishes, and no man lays it to heart. And merciful men are taken away; none considering that the righteous man is taken away from the evil [to come]. He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.

Many sorrows shall be to the wicked, but he who trusts in LORD, loving kindness shall encompass him about.

Sow to yourselves in righteousness. Reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek LORD, till he comes and rains righteousness upon you.

Blessed are the merciful, because they will obtain mercy.

He who covers his transgressions shall not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them shall obtain mercy.

All the paths of LORD are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

For thou, LORD, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in loving kindness to all those who call upon thee.

For LORD thy God is a merciful God. He will not fail thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he swore to them.

And David said to Gad, I am in a great strait. Let us fall now into the hand of LORD, for his mercies are great, and let me not fall into the hand of man.

Therefore turn thou to thy God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait for thy God continually.

And the king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I smite them? Shall I smite them? And he answered, Thou shall not smite them. Would thou smite those whom thou have taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? Set bread and water before them that they may eat and drink, and go to their master. And he prepared great provision for them. And when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. And the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.

Therefore if thine enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him to drink. For by doing this thou will heap coals of fire upon his head. Be thou not overcome by evil, but overcome evil by good.

Put on therefore, as chosen men of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassion, kindness, humility, mildness, longsuffering,

Thus LORD of hosts has spoken, saying, Execute TRUE justice, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

Become ye therefore merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

Who is a God like to thee, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

And his mercy is for generations of generations to those who fear him.

But God, being rich in mercy, through his great love that he loved us,

Kindness and truth preserve the king, and his throne is upheld by kindness.

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of LORD men depart from evil.

For thou, O God, have heard my vows. Thou have given [me] the heritage of those who fear thy name. Thou will prolong the king's life. His years shall be as many generations. He shall abide before God forever. O prepare loving kindness and truth that they may preserve him.

After rising, I will go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight. I am no more worthy to be called thy son. Make me as one of thy hired men. And having risen, he went to his father. But while he was still distant, afar off, his father saw him and felt compassion. And having ran, he fell on his neck, and kissed him much.

Sufficient to such a man is this punishment by the many, so that instead, for you rather to forgive and encourage, lest perhaps such a man would be swallowed up with too much sorrow. Therefore I beseech you to affirm love for him.

The wicked man borrows, and pays not again, but the righteous man deals graciously, and gives.

He who oppresses a poor man reproaches his maker, but he who has mercy on a needy man honors him.

Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, if there may be a lengthening of thy tranquility.

He who oppresses a poor man reproaches his maker, but he who has mercy on a needy man honors him.

Blessed are the merciful, because they will obtain mercy.

He who despises his neighbor sins, but he who has pity on the poor, happy is he.

The earth, O LORD, is full of thy loving kindness. Teach me thy statutes.

For thy loving kindness is great above the heavens, and thy truth [is] to the skies.

But the loving kindness of LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon those who fear him, and his righteousness to son's sons,

Praise ye LORD. O give thanks to LORD, for he is good, for his loving kindness [is] forever.

To LORD our God belong mercies and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him,

Also to thee, O LORD, belongs loving kindness, for thou render to every man according to his work.

But the wisdom from above is indeed first pure, then peaceful, meek, easily entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and non-hypocritical.

All the paths of LORD are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

All the day long he deals graciously, and lends, and his seed is blessed.

The righteous man perishes, and no man lays it to heart. And merciful men are taken away; none considering that the righteous man is taken away from the evil [to come].

Therefore the land shall mourn, and everyone who dwells in it shall languish with the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens. Yea, the fishes of the sea shall also be taken away.

Hear the word of LORD, ye sons of Israel, for LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

[It is of] LORD's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions do not fail. They are new every morning. Great is thy faithfulness.

And he said to David, Thou are more righteous than I, for thou have rendered to me good, whereas I have rendered to thee evil.

Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that LORD had delivered thee today into my hand in the cave. And some bade me kill thee, but [I] spared thee. And I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord, for he is LORD's anoi Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand, for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not. Know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in my hand, and I have not sinned LORD judge between me and thee, and LORD avenge me of thee, but my hand shall not be upon thee. read more.
As says the proverb of the ancients, Out of the wicked comes forth wickedness, but my hand shall not be upon thee.

A righteous man regards the life of his beast, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

He who follows after righteousness and kindness finds life, righteousness, and honor.

The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.

Kindness and truth preserve the king, and his throne is upheld by kindness.

Thus LORD of hosts has spoken, saying, Execute TRUE justice, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye tithe the mint and the anise and the cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law--justice and mercy and faith. These things must be done, and not neglecting t

Let not kindness and truth forsake thee. Bind them about thy neck, write them upon the tablet of thy heart,

or he who exhorts, in the exhortation; he who gives, in simplicity; he who leads, in diligence; he who does mercy, in cheerfulness.

But LORD was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison. And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners who were in the prison. And whatever they did there, he was the doer of it. The keeper of the prison did not look to anything that was under his hand, because LORD was with him, and that which he did, LORD made it prosper.

And he said, He who did mercy with him. Therefore Jesus said to him, Go, and do thou likewise.

And the house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (Now the name of the city was formerly Luz.) And the spies saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said to him, Show us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with thee. And he showed them the entrance into the city. And they smote the city with the edge of the sword, but they let the man go and all his family. read more.
And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name of it Luz, which is the name of it to this day.

Therefore turn thou to thy God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait for thy God continually.

Become ye therefore merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

he saved us, not of works in righteousness that we did, but according to his mercy through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents of the evil.

But Joshua saved alive Rahab the harlot, and her father's household, and all that she had. And she dwelt in the midst of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

And foreigners shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister to thee. For in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favor I have had mercy on thee.

Behold, as the eyes of servants to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes [are] to LORD our God, until he has mercy upon us.