18 Bible Verses about The Need For Mercy

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

But go ye and learn what this meaneth, I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.

But if ye had known what this meaneth, I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.

and forgive thy people who have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee; and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them;

Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me.

shouldest not thou also have had mercy on thy fellow-servant, even as I had mercy on thee?

Put on therefore, as God's elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering;

Be ye merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

or he that exhorteth, to his exhorting: he that giveth, let him do it with liberality; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that showeth mercy, with cheerfulness.

For judgment is without mercy to him that hath showed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgment.

He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Thus hath Jehovah of hosts spoken, saying, Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother;

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye tithe mint and anise and cummin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law, justice, and mercy, and faith: but these ye ought to have done, and not to have left the other undone.

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

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

If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.

and some save, snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.