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 their offences, your Heavenly Father will forgive you also;

ought not you also to have had pity on your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you?'

But whenever you stand praying, if you have a grievance against any one, forgive it, so that your Father in Heaven may also forgive you your offences."

Nevertheless love your enemies, be beneficent; and lend without hoping for any repayment. Then your recompense shall be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

On the contrary learn to be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ has also forgiven you.

Therefore be imitators of God, as His dear children.

Clothe yourselves therefore, as God's own people holy and dearly loved, with tender-heartedness, kindness, lowliness of mind, meekness, long-suffering;

The wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceful, courteous, not self-willed, full of compassion and kind actions, free from favouritism and from all insincerity.

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but just as you were formerly disobedient to Him, but now have received mercy at a time when they are disobedient,

Concerning unmarried women I have no command to give you from the Lord; but I offer you my opinion, which is that of a man who, through the Lord's mercy, is deserving of your confidence.

Therefore, being engaged in this service and being mindful of the mercy which has been shown us, we are not cowards.

though I was previously a blasphemer and a persecutor and had been insolent in outrage. Yet mercy was shown me, because I had acted ignorantly, not having as yet believed;

May the Lord show mercy to the household of Onesiphorus; for many a time he cheered me and he was not ashamed of my chain.

Therefore let us come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our times of need.

For God is not unjust so that He is unmindful of your labour and of the love which you have manifested towards Himself in having rendered services to His people and in still rendering them.

For he who shows no mercy will have judgement given against him without mercy; but mercy triumphs over judgement.

Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God. Once you had not found mercy, but now you have.