James 2:13

Partiality Forbidden

¹² Speak and act as those who will be judged by the law of freedom. ¹³ For judgment is without mercy to the one who hasn’t shown mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. ¹⁴ What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can his faith save him?

Shown Mercy

No

Proverbs 21:13

The one who shuts his ears to the cry of the poor
will himself also call out and not be answered.

Matthew 5:7

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

Job 22:6-10

For you took collateral from your brothers without cause,
stripping off their clothes and leaving them naked.

Matthew 6:15

But if you don’t forgive people, your Father will not forgive your wrongdoing.

Genesis 42:21

Then they said to each other, “Obviously, we are being punished for what we did to our brother. We saw his deep distress when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this trouble has come to us.”

Judges 1:7

Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table. God has repaid me for what I have done.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

Psalm 18:25

With the faithful
You prove Yourself faithful;
with the blameless man
You prove Yourself blameless;

Psalm 85:10

Faithful love and truth will join together;
righteousness and peace will embrace.

Isaiah 27:11

When its branches dry out, they will be broken off.
Women will come and make fires with them,
for they are not a people with understanding.
Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them,
and their Creator will not be gracious to them.

Jeremiah 9:24

But the one who boasts should boast in this,
that he understands and knows Me—
that I am Yahweh, showing faithful love,
justice, and righteousness on the earth,
for I delight in these things.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

Ezekiel 33:11

Tell them: As I live”—the declaration of the Lord God—“I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked person should turn from his way and live. Repent, repent of your evil ways! Why will you die, house of Israel?

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like You,
removing iniquity and passing over rebellion
for the remnant of His inheritance?
He does not hold on to His anger forever,
because He delights in faithful love.

Matthew 7:1-2

“Do not judge, so that you won’t be judged.

Matthew 18:28-35

“But that slave went out and found one of his fellow slaves who owed him 100 denarii. He grabbed him, started choking him, and said, ‘Pay what you owe!’

Matthew 25:41-46

Then He will also say to those on the left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the Devil and his angels!

Luke 6:37

“Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.

Luke 16:25

“‘Son,’ Abraham said, ‘remember that during your life you received your good things, just as Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.

Ephesians 1:6-7

to the praise of His glorious grace that He favored us with in the Beloved.

Ephesians 2:4-7

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love that He had for us,

James 5:4

Look! The pay that you withheld from the workers who reaped your fields cries out, and the outcry of the harvesters has reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

1 John 4:8-16

The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 John 4:18-19

There is no fear in love; instead, perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. So the one who fears has not reached perfection in love.