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, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

Should not you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?'

With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect.

"If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.

All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His seed is blessed.

Blessed is he who considers the poor. The LORD will deliver him in the day of evil.

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.

The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.

He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who shows kindness to the poor.

He who has pity on the poor lends to the LORD; he will reward him.

The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil.

"Isn't this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?

Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of your prosperity."

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does the LORD require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, 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, may also forgive you your transgressions."

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

Put on therefore, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

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

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She conceived again, and bore a daughter. Then he said to him, "Call her name Lo-Ruhamah; for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, that I should in any way pardon them.

"Say to your brothers, 'My people.' and to your sisters, 'My loved one.'

For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,

Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we do not faint.

although I was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

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

Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

who once were not a people, but now are God's people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.