Proverbs 12:10

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Summary

Proverbs 12:10

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

Righteous

But

James 2:13

Tender mercies

1 John 3:17

General references

Acts 27:42

Bible References

Righteous

But Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are frail, and that the nursing flocks and herds are a care to me. If they are driven hard for one day, all the flocks will die.

Then the LORDopened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, "What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?"

"You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.

The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water?

But

Then Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

And Adoni-bezek said, "Seventy kings with their thumbs and their big toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table. As I have done, so God has repaid me." And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, "On this condition I will make a treaty with you, that I gouge out all your right eyes, and thus bring disgrace on all Israel."

Since it was the day of Preparation, and so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away.

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

Tender mercies

But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?

General references

The soldiers' plan was to kill the prisoners, lest any should swim away and escape.