18 Bible Verses about The Need For Mercy

The merciful are blessed,
for they will be shown mercy.

Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice. For I didn’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

If you had known what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the innocent.

May You forgive Your people
who sinned against You
and all their rebellions against You,
and may You give them compassion
in the eyes of their captors,
so that they may be compassionate to them.

Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy,
for God’s hand has struck me.

Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow slave, as I had mercy on you?’

Therefore, God’s chosen ones, holy and loved, put on heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience,

Be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.

And be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God also forgave you in Christ.

if exhorting, in exhortation;
giving, with generosity;
leading, with diligence;
showing mercy, with cheerfulness.

For judgment is without mercy to the one who hasn’t shown mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Mankind, He has told you what is good
and what it is the Lord requires of you:
to act justly,
to love faithfulness,
and to walk humbly with your God.

“The Lord of Hosts says this: Make fair decisions. Show faithful love and compassion to one another.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You pay a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, yet you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy, and faith. These things should have been done without neglecting the others.

Love is patient, love is kind.
Love does not envy,
is not boastful, is not conceited,

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peace-loving, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without favoritism and hypocrisy.

If we have put our hope in Christ for this life only, we should be pitied more than anyone.

save others by snatching them from the fire; have mercy on others but with fear, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh.