14 Bible Verses about The Need For Mercy

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

go then and learn the meaning of that expression, "I will have mercy and not sacrifice:" for I am not come to call saints, but sinners.

if ye had known the meaning of that expression, "I will have mercy and not sacrifice," ye would not have condemned the guiltless.

should not you then have had the like compassion for thy fellow servant as I had for thee?

be you therefore adorn'd with a compassionate temper, with benevolence, humility, meekness, patience as becometh saints and chosen favourites of God:

be ye therefore merciful, as your father is merciful.

be mutually kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

on exhortation: he that giveth, let him be disinterested; he that presideth, let him be diligent; he that sheweth mercy, let him do it with cheerfulness.

for he that has not shewed mercy, shall be condemn'd without mercy: while the merciful shall triumph at his trial.

wo unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, who pay tithe of mint, anise, and cummin, but neglect those more important matters of the law, justice, mercy, and fidelity: these were the things ye ought to have practis'd, without neglecting however the other matters.

Social affection is patient, is kind; is a stranger to envy; is not insolently vain, nor arrogant: does not behave indecently,

but wisdom deriv'd from heaven is first dispassionate, then pacific, equitable, and obsequious: full of beneficence, and all social virtue, free from partiality, and hypocrisy.

if our expectations as christians all terminate in this life, we of all men are most to be pitied.

of others be compassionately tender, snatching them, as it were, out of the fire: and avoid even the garment of the infected.