14 Bible Verses about The Need For Mercy

Blessed are the merciful; for they shall receive mercy.

But go and learn what this means: I desire mercy, and not sacrifice. For I came not to call righteous men, but sinners to repentance.

But if you had known what this means I desire mercy, and not sacrifice you would not have condemned the blameless.

Ought you not to have had mercy on your fellow-servant, even as I had mercy on you?

Put on, therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, a merciful disposition, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering:

Be you, therefore, merciful, as your Father also is merciful.

and be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.

or, if any exhorts, let him attend to exhortation; if any one gives, let him do it with sincerity; he that rules, with diligence: he that shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

For he shall have judgment without mercy, who has shown no mercy. Mercy glories over judgment.

Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law, its justice, its mercy, and its faithfulness. These you ought to have done, and those you ought not to have neglected.

Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love boasts not; is not vain,

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most miserable.

and others, save by fear, snatching them from the fire, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.