18 Bible Verses about The Need For Mercy

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

Go and learn, what that meaneth: 'I have pleasure in mercy, and not in offering.' For I am not come to call the righteous, but the sinners to repentance."

Wherefore if ye had wist, what this saying meaneth, 'I require mercy and not sacrifice,' ye would never have condemned innocents.

and be merciful unto thy people that have sinned against thee, and unto all their trespass that they have trespassed against thee, and get them favour in the sight of them that hold 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.

Was it not mete also, that thou shouldest have had compassion on thy fellow, even as I had pity on thee?'

Now therefore as elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercy, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long suffering,

Be ye therefore merciful, as your father is merciful.

Be ye courteous one to another, and merciful, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake forgave you.

Let him that teacheth take heed to his doctrine; Let him that exhorteth give attendance to his exhortation; If any man give, let him do it with singleness; Let him that ruleth do it with diligence; If any man show mercy let him do it with cheerfulness.

For there shall be judgment, merciless, to him that showeth no mercy, and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.

I will show thee, O man, what is good, and what the LORD requireth of thee: Namely, to do right, to have pleasure in loving-kindness, to be lowly, and to walk with thy God.

"Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts, 'Execute true judgment, and show mercy and loving-kindness, every man to his brother.

Woe be to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye which tithe mint, anise, and cumin, and leave the weightier matters of the law undone: judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to have left the other undone.

Love suffereth long, and is courteous. Love envieth not. Love doth not forwardly, swelleth not,

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

If in this life only we believe on Christ, then are we, of all men, the miserablest.

and others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, and hate the filthy vesture of the flesh.