Reference: Mercy, Merciful
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MERCY, MERCIFUL
Mercy (French merci) is traced, through ecclesiastical Latin, to merces (reward); it seems to have got its meaning from the exclamation of the alms-receiver, 'Merci!' i.e. 'Reward to you (in heaven)!' 'May God reward you!'
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But while he was waiting, the men took him and his wife and his daughters by the hand, for the Lord had mercy on them, and put them outside the town.
And may God, the Ruler of all, give you mercy before the man, so that he may give you back your other brother and Benjamin. If my children are to be taken from me; there is no help for it.
Then Joseph's heart went out to his brother, and he went quickly into his room, for he was overcome with weeping.
And the Lord went past before his eyes, saying, The Lord, the Lord, a God full of pity and grace, slow to wrath and great in mercy and faith;
And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them, give them up to complete destruction: make no agreement with them, and have no mercy on them:
Be certain, then, that the Lord your God is God; whose faith and mercy are unchanging, who keeps his word through a thousand generations to those who have love for him and keep his laws;
Have mercy, O Lord, on your people Israel whom you have made free, and take away from your people the crime of a death without cause. Then they will no longer be responsible for the man's death.
Be glad, O you his people, over the nations; for he will take payment for the blood of his servants, and will give punishment to his haters, and take away the sin of his land, for his people.
I gave you your master's daughter and your master's wives for yourself, and I gave you the daughters of Israel and Judah; and if that had not been enough, I would have given you such and such things.
Let your ear now take note and let your eyes be open, so that you may give ear to the prayer of your servant, which I make before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel, your servants, while I put before you the sins of the children of Israel, which we have done against you: truly, I and my father's people are sinners.
And now, our God, the great, the strong, the God who is to be feared, who keeps faith and mercy, let not all this trouble seem small to you, which has come on us, and on our kings and our rulers and on our priests and our prophets and our fathers and on all your people from the time of the kings of Assyria till this day.
Give answer to my cry, O God of my righteousness; make me free from my troubles; have mercy on me, and give ear to my prayer.
I will keep my mercy for him for ever; my agreement with him will not be changed.
I will make a song of mercy and righteousness; to you, O Lord, will I make melody.
As a father has pity on his children, so the Lord has pity on his worshippers.
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, or your ways my ways, says the Lord.
It was no sent one or angel, but he himself who was their saviour: in his love and in his pity he took up their cause, and he took them in his arms, caring for them all through the years.
The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
And I made prayer to the Lord my God, putting our sins before him, and said, O Lord, the great God, greatly to be feared. keeping your agreement and mercy with those who have love for you and do your orders;
Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.
Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy.
O Lord, word of you has come to my ears; I have seen your work, O Lord; when the years come near make it clear; in wrath keep mercy in mind.
Happy are those who have mercy: for they will be given mercy.
Was it not right for you to have mercy on the other servant, even as I had mercy on you?
And the people gave them orders to be quiet; but they went on crying even louder, Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us. And Jesus, stopping, sent for them, and said, What would you have me do to you? read more. They say to him, Lord, that our eyes may be open. And Jesus, being moved with pity, put his fingers on their eyes: and straight away they were able to see, and went after him.
Be full of pity, even as your Father is full of pity.
And he gave a cry and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, so that he may put the end of his finger in water and put it on my tongue, for I am cruelly burning in this flame.
And to make clear the wealth of his glory to vessels of mercy, which he had before made ready for glory,
For this reason I make request to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you will give your bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God, which is the worship it is right for you to give him.
And be kind to one another, full of pity, having forgiveness for one another, even as God in Christ had forgiveness for you.
And be kind to one another, full of pity, having forgiveness for one another, even as God in Christ had forgiveness for you.
If then there is any comfort in Christ, any help given by love, any uniting of hearts in the Spirit, any loving mercies and pity,
We give praise to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, making prayer for you at all times,
As saints of God, then, holy and dearly loved, let your behaviour be marked by pity and mercy, kind feeling, a low opinion of yourselves, gentle ways, and a power of undergoing all things;
Masters, give your servants what is right and equal, conscious that you have a Master in heaven.
A man who has gone against the law of Moses is put to death without pity on the word of two or three witnesses:
But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is.
We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.
We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.
Last of all, see that you are all in agreement; feeling for one another, loving one another like brothers, full of pity, without pride: