49 Bible Verses about Mercy

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Romans 9:15

I will commiserate whomsoever I commiserate, and I will have compassion upon whomsoever I have compassion.

Psalm 136:1

Confess ye to Jehovah, for he is good: for his mercy is forever.

2 John 1:3

There shall be with you grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth, and love.

Romans 9:18

Surely then, whom he will he commiserates, and whom he will he hardens.

Psalm 103:11

For as the height of the heavens above the earth, his mercy prevailed upon those fearing him.

Psalm 145:9

Jehovah is good to all, and his mercies over all his works.

2 Samuel 24:14

And David will say to Gad, Straits to me exceedingly: now we will fall into the hand of Jehovah, for many his compassions; and into the hand of man I will not fall.

Deuteronomy 4:31

For Jehovah thy God a merciful God; he will not desert thee, and he will not destroy thee, and he will not forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware to them.

1 Chronicles 16:34

Confess ye to Jehovah, for he is good, for his mercy is forever.

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Mercy » Sought

Psalm 51:1

To the overseer: chanting to David; In the coming to him of Nathan the prophet, when he went in to Bathsheba. Compassionate me, O God, according to thy mercy: according to the Multitude of thy compassions wipe away my transgressions.

Daniel 9:16

O Jehovah, according to all thy justice, now shall thine anger be turned back, and thy wrath from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: for our sins and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people for a reproach to all those round about us.

Luke 18:13

And the publican, standing afar off, would not either lift up the eyes to heaven, but struck upon his breast, saying, God propitiate for me the sinful.

Mercy » Promises of divine

Jeremiah 3:12

Go and call these words to the north, and say, Turn back, O Israel, turning away, says Jehovah; I will not cause my face to fall upon you: for I am merciful, says Jehovah, I will not guard forever.

Exodus 34:7

Watching kindness for thousands, taking away iniquity, and transgression and sin, and acquitting, will not cleanse; striking the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons and upon the sons' sons, upon the third and the fourth.

Mercy » Neglect of

Matthew 25:43

I was a stranger and ye brought me not in; naked, and ye put not around me; sick, and in prison, and ye took not a view of me.

Psalm 109:16

Because he remembered not to do mercy, and he will pursue the poor and needy man to slay the dejected of heart.

Ezekiel 34:4

Ye strengthened not the sickly, and the diseased ye healed not, and the broken ye bound not up, and the thrust away ye turned not back, and the lost ye sought not; and with force and with oppression ye ruled them.

Mercy » God's

Psalm 77:17

The clouds poured out waters: the clouds gave a voice: also thine arrows will go about.

Judges 5:4

Jehovah, in thy going forth from Seir, In thy ascending from the field of Edom, The earth trembled, the heavens also dropped, Also the clouds dropped water.

Mercy » Man commanded to exercise

Proverbs 11:17

The man of mercy benefited his soul: and the cruel troubled his flesh.

More verses: Hosea 12:6 Proverbs 3:3

Mercy » The merciful

Proverbs 14:21

He despising to his neighbor, sins: and he compassionating the poor, he is happy.

2 Samuel 22:21-26

Jehovah will recompense me according to my justice: According to the cleanness of my hands he turned back to me. For I have watched the ways of Jehovah, And I acted not wickedly away from my God. For all his judgments before me, And his laws I will not depart from them. read more.
And I will be blameless to him, and I shall be washed from mine iniquity. Jehovah will turn back to me according to my justice: According to my cleanness before his eyes. With the merciful thou wilt be merciful, With the perfect man thou wilt be perfect

Psalm 18:24-25

And Jehovah will turn back to me according to my justice, and according to the cleanness of my hands before his eyes. With the kind thou wilt show thyself kind; and with the blameless man thou wilt be perfect

Isaiah 57:1-2

The just one perished and none put upon the heart: men of kindness being taken away, for none understanding that the just one was taken away from the face of evil He shall come into peace: they shall rest upon their beds, he went in his justice.

Mercy » Who shall have mercy

Hosea 10:12

Sow to yourselves for justice, reap ye for the mouth of kindness; break up to you the fallow ground: and the time to seek Jehovah till he shall come and cast justice upon you.

Psalm 25:10

All the paths of Jehovah are mercy and truth to those watching his covenant and his testimonies.

More verses: Proverbs 14:22

Mercy » Divine mercy

Deuteronomy 4:31

For Jehovah thy God a merciful God; he will not desert thee, and he will not destroy thee, and he will not forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware to them.

2 Samuel 24:14

And David will say to Gad, Straits to me exceedingly: now we will fall into the hand of Jehovah, for many his compassions; and into the hand of man I will not fall.

Mercy » Encouraged

2 Kings 6:21-23

And the king of Israel will say to Elisha when he saw them, Shall I strike? shall I strike, my father? And he will say, Thou shalt not strike: whom thou tookest captive with thy sword and with thy bow; strikest thou? set bread and water before them, and they shall eat and drink and go to their lord. And he will purchase for them a great purchase: and they will eat and drink, and he will send them, and they will go to their lord. And the troops of Aram will add no more to come into the land of Israel.

Romans 12:20-21

If therefore thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for doing this, thou shalt heap up-coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

Mercy » Being merciful

Mercy » Forgives sin

Micah 7:18

Who is God as thee, lifting up iniquity and passing by transgression to the remnant of his inheritance? he held not his anger forever for he delighted in mercy.

Mercy » What mercy does

Proverbs 20:28

Mercy and truth shall guard the king: and his throne he upheld in mercy.

Psalm 61:5-7

For thou, O God, heartiest to my vows: thou gavest the inheritance to those fearing thy name. Thou wilt add days to the days of the king: his years as generation and generation. He shall dwell before God forever: mercy and truth a portion shall guard him.

Mercy » Should be shown » To backsliders

Luke 15:18-20

Having risen, I will go to my father, and say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, And I am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired. And having risen, he came to his father. And yet being far off, his father saw him, and felt compassion, and having run, fell upon his neck, and kissed him.

2 Corinthians 2:6-8

Sufficient to such a one this enjoyment of the esteem of the many. So that on the contrary ye should rather show kindness, and console, lest perhaps such be swallowed down with more abundant sadness. Wherefore I beseech you to confirm love to him.

Mercy » Who shows mercy

Mercy » Should be shown » To the poor

Daniel 4:27

Wherefore, O king, my counsel shall be pleasant to thee, and break off thy sins by justice, and thine iniquities in compassionating the poor; if it shall be a lengthening to thy peace.

Mercy » Blessedness of showing

Proverbs 14:21

He despising to his neighbor, sins: and he compassionating the poor, he is happy.

Mercy » Boundless

Psalm 119:64

Thy mercy, O Jehovah, filled the earth: teach me thy laws.

Psalm 108:4

For great above the heavens thy mercy, and even to the clouds thy truth.

Mercy » Eternal

Psalm 103:17

And the mercy of Jehovah is from forever even to forever upon those fearing him, and his justice to sons' sons.

Mercy » Mercy belonging to the lord

Psalm 62:12

And to thee, O Jehovah, mercy: for thou wilt recompense to each according to his work.

Mercy » What is full of mercy

Psalm 25:10

All the paths of Jehovah are mercy and truth to those watching his covenant and his testimonies.

Mercy » Characteristic of saints

Psalm 37:26

All the day he compassionates and lends; and his seed to be blessed.

Mercy » Denunciations against those devoid of

Hosea 4:3

For this the land shall mourn, and every one in it languished with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of the heavens; and also the fish of the sea shall be taken away.

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of Jehovah, ye sons of Israel: for a contention to Jehovah with the inhabitants of the land, for no truth and no kindness and no knowledge of God in the land.

Mercy » Prolongs life

Lamentations 3:22-23

The mercies of Jehovah are that we were not consumed, for his compassions were not finished. New for the mornings: great thy faithfulness.

Mercy » Instances of » David, to saul

1 Samuel 24:17

And he will say to David, Thou art just above me, for thou didst reward me good and I rewarded thee evil.

1 Samuel 24:10-13

Behold, this day thine eyes saw that Jehovah gave thee this day into my hand in the cave: and it was said to kill thee; and it had pity upon thee, and saying, I will not stretch forth my hand against my lord, for he is Jehovah's Messiah. And my father, see, also see, the wing of thy upper garment in my hand: for in my cutting off the wing of thine upper garment and I killed thee not, know and see that there is not in my hand evil and rebellion: and I sinned not against thee; and thou didst hunt my soul to take it And Jehovah will judge between me and between thee, and Jehovah avenge me of thee: and my hand shall not be upon thee. read more.
As the ancient parable will say, Injustice will go forth from the unjust; and my hand shall not be upon thee.

Mercy » Should be shown » To animals

Mercy » Those that follow after mercy

Mercy » Beneficial to those who exercise

Proverbs 11:17

The man of mercy benefited his soul: and the cruel troubled his flesh.

Mercy » Upholds the throne of kings

Proverbs 20:28

Mercy and truth shall guard the king: and his throne he upheld in mercy.

Mercy » Should be shown » To our brethren

Mercy » Hypocrites, devoid of

Mercy » To be engraved on the heart

Mercy » Should be shown » With cheerfulness

Mercy » Instances of » The prison keeper, to joseph

Genesis 39:21-23

And Jehovah will be with Joseph, and will extend to him kindness, and will give his grace in the eyes of the chief of the house of the fortress. And the chief of the house of the fortress will give into Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the house of the fortress; and all which was done there he was doing. The chief of the house of the fortress saw not all the things in his hand, because Jehovah was with him: and what he did Jehovah prospering.

Mercy » Should be shown » To those that are in distress

Luke 10:37

And he said, He having done mercy with him. Then said Jesus to him, Go thou, and do likewise.

Mercy » Instances of » The israelites to the man of beth-el

Judges 1:23-26

And the house of Joseph will examine in the house of God. And the name of the city before, was Almond tree. And they watching will see a man coming out of the city, and they will say to him, Show to us the entrance of the city, and we will do mercy with thee. And he will show them the entrance of the city, and they will smite the city with the mouth of the sword: and that man and all his family they sent away. read more.
And the man will go up to the land of the Hittites, and he will build a city and call its name Luz; this its name till this day.

Mercy » Keeping mercy

Mercy » After the example of God

Mercy » Makes salvation possible

Mercy » Encourages to penitence

Mercy » Instances of » Joshua to rahab

Joshua 6:25

And Rahab the harlot, and the house of her father and all which is to her, Joshua preserved alive; and she will dwell in the midst of Israel till this day, because she hid the messengers which Joshua sent out to spy Jericho.

The favor of God » Is the source of » Mercy

Isaiah 60:10

And the sons Of the stranger built thy walls, and their kings shall serve thee: for in my wrath I struck thee, and in mine acceptance I compassionated thee.

Waiting upon God » For » Mercy

Psalm 123:2

Behold, as the eyes of servants to the hand of their lords, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are to Jehovah our God, even till he compassionate us.

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God Showed Mercy

Isaiah 60:10

And the sons Of the stranger built thy walls, and their kings shall serve thee: for in my wrath I struck thee, and in mine acceptance I compassionated thee.

God Will Show Mercy

Romans 9:15

I will commiserate whomsoever I commiserate, and I will have compassion upon whomsoever I have compassion.

God Without Mercy

Deuteronomy 7:2

And Jehovah thy God gave them before thee, and thou didst smite them: exterminating, thou shalt exterminate them; thou shalt not make to them a covenant and thou shalt not show them mercy.

God's Mercy, Example Of

Genesis 19:16

And he shall linger, and the men will hold fast upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; in Jehovah's having compassion upon him; and they shall bring him forth, and lead him without the city.

Mercy And Grace

2 John 1:3

There shall be with you grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth, and love.

Mercy Killings

Psalm 136:17-20

To him striking great kings: for his mercy is forever.

Mercy Seat

Exodus 25:17-22

And make a cover of pure gold: two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth;

Mercy, Examples Of

1 Samuel 11:13

And Saul will say, A man shall not die in this day, for this day Jehovah made salvation in Israel.

Mercy, Of Jesus Christ

Luke 4:16-21

And he came to Nazareth where he was brought up, and he went in, as was the custom to him in the day of the sabbaths, into the assembly, and stood up to read.

Receiving God's Mercy

Psalm 106:46

And he will give them for compassions before all those carrying them away captive.

Show No Mercy

Deuteronomy 7:16

And thou didst consume all the peoples which Jehovah thy God gave to thee; thine eye shall not have pity upon them, and thou shalt not serve their gods, for it is a snare to thee.

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