Matthew 5:7

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Matthew 5:7

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

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For if you forgive others for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

Should you not also have had mercy on your fellow slave, in the same way that I had mercy on you?’

“With the kind You show Yourself kind,
With the blameless You show Yourself blameless;

“If I have kept the poor from their desire,
Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

With the kind You show Yourself kind;
With the blameless You show Yourself blameless;

All day long he is gracious and lends,
And his descendants are a blessing.

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
How blessed is he who considers the helpless;
The Lord will deliver him in a day of trouble.

Light arises in the darkness for the upright;
He is gracious and compassionate and righteous.

The merciful man does himself good,
But the cruel man does himself harm.

He who despises his neighbor sins,
But happy is he who is gracious to the poor.

One who is gracious to a poor man lends to the Lord,
And He will repay him for his

good deed.

The righteous man perishes, and no man takes it to heart;
And devout men are taken away, while no one understands.
For the righteous man is taken away from evil,

“Is this not the fast which I choose,
To loosen the bonds of wickedness,
To undo the bands of the yoke,
And to let the oppressed go free
And break every yoke?

Therefore, O king, may my advice be pleasing to you:

break away now from your sins by doing righteousness and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, in case there may be a prolonging of your prosperity.’

He has told you, O man, what is good;
And what does the Lord require of you
But to do justice, to love kindness,
And to walk

humbly with your God?

Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father who is in heaven will also forgive you your transgressions.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He Himself is kind to ungrateful and evil men.

Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children;

So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and

patience;

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy.

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Then she conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. And the Lord said to him, “Name her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have compassion on the house of Israel, that I would ever forgive them.

Say to your brothers, “Ammi,” and to your sisters, “Ruhamah.”

For just as you once were disobedient to God, but now have been shown mercy because of their disobedience,

Now concerning virgins I have no command of the Lord, but I give an opinion as one who

by the mercy of the Lord is trustworthy.

Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we received mercy, we do not lose heart,

even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor. Yet I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief;

The Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my

chains;

Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His name, in having ministered and in still ministering to the saints.

For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.

for you once were not a people, but now you are the people of God; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.