Matthew 5:7

The Beatitudes

⁶ Blessed are they who do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. ⁷  Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. ⁸ Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

Blessed are

Have Mercy

In Me

Obtain Mercy

Show Mercy

Shown Mercy

2 Samuel 22:26

With the merciful you will show yourself merciful, and with the upright man you will show yourself upright.

Proverbs 11:17

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

Proverbs 19:17

He that has pity upon the poor lends unto the LORD; and that which he has given will he pay him again.

Matthew 6:14-15

For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:

Matthew 18:33-35

Should not you also have had compassion on your fellow servant, even as I had pity on you?

Hebrews 6:10

For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, which you have showed toward his name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

Job 31:16-22

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

Psalm 18:25

With the merciful you will show yourself merciful; with an upright man you will show yourself upright;

Psalm 37:26

He is ever merciful, and lends; and his descendants are blessed.

Psalm 41:1-4

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] Blessed is he that considers the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.

Psalm 112:4

Unto the upright there arises light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.

Psalm 112:9

He has dispersed, he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his strength shall be exalted with honor.

Proverbs 14:21

He that despises his neighbor sins: but he that has mercy on the poor, happy is he.

Isaiah 57:1

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 to come.

Isaiah 58:6-12

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?

Daniel 4:27

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

Hosea 1:6

And she conceived again, and bore a daughter. And God said unto him, Call her name Loruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.

Hosea 2:1

Say you unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.

Hosea 2:23

And I will sow her for myself in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them who were not my people, you are my people; and they shall say, you are my God.

Micah 6:8

He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

Mark 11:25

And when you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against any: that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.

Luke 6:35

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward shall be great, and you shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.

Romans 11:30

For as you in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:

1 Corinthians 7:25

Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that has obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

2 Corinthians 4:1

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;

Ephesians 4:32-1

And be you kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you.

Colossians 3:12

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;

1 Timothy 1:13

Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and insolent: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

1 Timothy 1:16

But for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all longsuffering, for an example to them who should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.

2 Timothy 1:16-18

The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chains:

Hebrews 4:16

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

James 2:13

For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has showed no mercy; and mercy triumphs over judgment.

James 3:17

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

1 Peter 2:10

Who in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.