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 men their trespasses, then your heavenly Father will forgive you;

Ought you not to have had mercy on your fellow-servant, as I had on you?'

Also, whenever you stand up to pray, if you have anything against anybody, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your trespasses."

No, you must love your enemies and help them, you must lend to them without expecting any return; then you will have a rich reward, you will be sons of the Most High for he is kind even to the ungrateful and the evil.

be kind to each other, be tender-hearted, be generous to each other as God has been generous to you in Christ.

Copy God, then, as his beloved children,

As God's own chosen, then, as consecrated and beloved, be clothed with compassion, kindliness, humility, gentleness, and good temper ??13 forbear and forgive each other in any case of complaint; as Christ forgave you, so must you forgive.

The wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, forbearing, conciliatory, full of mercy and wholesome fruit, unambiguous, straightforward;

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Once you disobeyed God, and now you enjoy his mercy thanks to their disobedience; in the same way they at present are disobedient,

I have no orders from the Lord for unmarried women, but I will give you the opinion of one whom you can trust, after all the Lord's mercy to him.

Hence, as I hold this ministry by God's mercy to me, I never lose heart in it;

though I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a wanton aggressor. I obtained mercy because in my unbelief I had acted out of ignorance;

May the Lord show favour to the household of Onesiphorus, for many a time he braced me up; he was not ashamed of my imprisonment ??17 no, he made eager search for me when he reached Rome, and he found me

So let us approach the throne of grace with confidence, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in the hour of need.

God is not unfair; he will not forget what you have done, or the love you have shown for his sake in ministering, as you still do, to the saints.

for the judgment will be merciless to the man who has shown no mercy ??whereas the merciful life will triumph in the face of judgment.