18 Bible Verses about The Need For Mercy

Blessed [are] the merciful, because they will be shown mercy.

But go [and] learn what it means, "I want mercy and not sacrifice." For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

And if you had known what {it means}, 'I want mercy and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless.

You shall forgive your people who sinned against you, [even] for all their transgressions which they committed against you. You shall give them compassion before their captors so that they may have compassion on them,

"Pity me, pity me, you my friends, for God's hand has touched me.

Should you not also have shown mercy to your fellow slave as I also showed mercy to you?'

Therefore, as [the] chosen of God, holy and [dearly] loved, put on affection, compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience,

Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful!

Become kind toward one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as also God in Christ has forgiven you.

if [it is] one who exhorts, by exhortation; one who gives, with sincerity; one who leads, with diligence; one who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

For judgment [is] merciless to the one who has not practiced mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

He has told you, O mortal, what [is] good, and what does Yahweh ask from you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

"Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'Judge [with] trustworthy justice, and show steadfast love and compassion {to one another}.

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees--hypocrites!--because you pay a tenth of mint and dill and cumin, and neglect the more important [matters] of the law--justice and mercy and faithfulness! It was necessary to do these [things] {while not neglecting those}.

Love is patient, love is kind, love is not jealous, [it] does not boast, [it] does not become conceited,

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, obedient, full of mercy and good fruits, nonjudgmental, without hypocrisy,

If {we have put our hope} in Christ in this life only, we are of all people most pitiable.

and save others [by] snatching [them] from the fire, and have mercy on others with fear, hating even the tunic stained by the flesh.