49 Bible Verses about Mercy
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I will commiserate whomsoever I commiserate, and I will have compassion upon whomsoever I have compassion.
And having gone, learn what is this, I wish mercy, and not sacrifice: for I came not to call the just, but the sinful to repentance.
Surely goodness and mercy, shall pursue me all the days of my life: and I dwelt in the house of Jehovah to the length of days.
For Jehovah is good; his mercy forever and his faithfulness to generation and generation.
He announced to thee, O man, what was good; and what did Jehovah require of thee but to do judgment and to love mercy, and being humbled, to go with thy God?
Put on therefore, as the chosen of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassions, kindnesses, humility, meekness, longsuffering;
For I delighted in mercy and not sacrifice; the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.
We should therefore go with freedom of speech to the throne of grace, that we receive mercy, and find grace for timely assistance.
Confess ye to Jehovah, for he is good: for his mercy is forever.
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.
Surely then, whom he will he commiserates, and whom he will he hardens.
For as the height of the heavens above the earth, his mercy prevailed upon those fearing him.
Praised the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy having begotten us again to a living hope, by the rising up of Jesus Christ from the dead,
The mercies of Jehovah are that we were not consumed, for his compassions were not finished.
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.
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.
Confess ye to Jehovah, for he is good, for his mercy is forever.
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
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Mercy » Sought
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.
O Jehovah, I heard thy report, I was afraid: O Jehovah, preserve alive thy work in the midst of years, in the midst of years make known; in anger thou wilt remember mercy.
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.
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
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.
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.
The unjust one shall forsake his way, and the man of vanity his purposes, and turn back to Jehovah, and he will pity him, and to our God, for he will multiply to forgive.
Mercy » Neglect of
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.
Because he remembered not to do mercy, and he will pursue the poor and needy man to slay the dejected of heart.
He stopping his ear from the cry of the poor one also himself shall call and shall not be answered.
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
These are fountains wanting water, clouds impelled by a hurricane; for whom the obscurity of darkness has been kept forever.
The clouds poured out waters: the clouds gave a voice: also thine arrows will go about.
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.
Shalt thou know upon the poisings of the cloud, the wonders of the complete of knowledges?
Mercy » Man commanded to exercise
He announced to thee, O man, what was good; and what did Jehovah require of thee but to do judgment and to love mercy, and being humbled, to go with thy God?
The man of mercy benefited his soul: and the cruel troubled his flesh.
Mercy » The merciful
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
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
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
Many the sorrows to the unjust one: and he trusting in Jehovah, mercy shall surround him.
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.
He covering his transgression shall not prosper: but he confessing and forsaking, shall be compassionated.
All the paths of Jehovah are mercy and truth to those watching his covenant and his testimonies.
Mercy » Divine mercy
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.
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
And thou, in thy God thou shalt turn back: watch mercy and judgment, and wait always for thy God.
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.
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
Put on therefore, as the chosen of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassions, kindnesses, humility, meekness, longsuffering;
Thus said Jehovah of armies, saying. Judge ye the judgment of truth, and do mercy and compassions each to his brother.
Mercy » Forgives sin
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
Mercy and truth shall guard the king: and his throne he upheld in mercy.
By mercy and truth iniquity shall be expiated: and in the fear of Jehovah a departing from evil.
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
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.
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
The unjust one borrowed and he will not repay: and the just one compassionated, and gave.
He oppressing the poor reproached him making him: and he honoring him compassionated the needy.
Mercy » Should be shown » To the poor
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.
He oppressing the poor reproached him making him: and he honoring him compassionated the needy.
Mercy » Blessedness of showing
Mercy » Boundless
For great above the heavens thy mercy, and even to the clouds thy truth.
Mercy » Eternal
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
Mercy » What is full of mercy
And the wisdom from above is truly first pure, then peaceful, decorous, docile, full of mercy and good fruits, not separated, and unfeigned.
All the paths of Jehovah are mercy and truth to those watching his covenant and his testimonies.
Mercy » Characteristic of saints
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
Mercy » Denunciations against those devoid of
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.
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
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
And he will say to David, Thou art just above me, for thou didst reward me good and I rewarded thee evil.
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
The just one shall know the soul of his cattle: and the compassion of the unjust are cruel.
Mercy » Those that follow after mercy
Mercy » Beneficial to those who exercise
The man of mercy benefited his soul: and the cruel troubled his flesh.
Mercy » Upholds the throne of kings
Mercy and truth shall guard the king: and his throne he upheld in mercy.
Mercy » Should be shown » To our brethren
Thus said Jehovah of armies, saying. Judge ye the judgment of truth, and do mercy and compassions each to his brother.
Mercy » Hypocrites, devoid of
Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye exact tenths and dill and cummin, and ye have left the weightier things of the law, judgment, and mercy, and faith: these it was necessary to do, and not to let go those.
Mercy » To be engraved on the heart
Mercy and truth shall not forsake thee: bind them upon thy throat; write them upon the tablet of thy heart:
Mercy » Should be shown » With cheerfulness
Whether he beseeching, in supplication: he imparting, in simplicity; he placed before, in earnestness; he compassionating, in cheerfulness.
Mercy » Instances of » The prison keeper, to joseph
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
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
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
And thou, in thy God thou shalt turn back: watch mercy and judgment, and wait always for thy God.
Mercy » After the example of God
Mercy » Makes salvation possible
Not of works in justice which we did; but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and the renovation of the Holy Spirit;
Mercy » Encourages to penitence
And rend your heart and not your garments, and turn back to Jehovah your God: for he is merciful and compassionate, slow of anger and of much kindness, and lamenting on account of the evil.
Mercy » Instances of » Joshua to rahab
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
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
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.
Topics on Mercy
Abundant Mercy
1 Peter 1:3Praised the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy having begotten us again to a living hope, by the rising up of Jesus Christ from the dead,
God Showed Mercy
Isaiah 60:10And 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 9:15I will commiserate whomsoever I commiserate, and I will have compassion upon whomsoever I have compassion.
God Without Mercy
Deuteronomy 7:2And 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 19:16And 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 1:3There 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 Seat
Exodus 25:17-22And 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 11:13And Saul will say, A man shall not die in this day, for this day Jehovah made salvation in Israel.
Mercy, Human
Proverbs 18:23The poor one will speak supplications; and the rich one will answer with vehemence.
Mercy, Of Jesus Christ
Luke 4:16-21And 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.
Mercy, Response To God's
Romans 12:1I Beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, your reasonable service.
People Showing Mercy
Psalm 72:13He will spare for the poor and the needy, and he will save the souls of the needy.
People Without Mercy
Romans 1:31Destitute of understanding, unsteady, devoid of natural affection, implacable, merciless:
Propitiatory [Mercy Seat]
Exodus 25:17And make a cover of pure gold: two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth;
Receiving God's Mercy
Psalm 106:46And he will give them for compassions before all those carrying them away captive.
Show No Mercy
Deuteronomy 7:16And 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.