Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Cruelty » General references to
Deliver me not over to the will of mine adversaries; for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out violence.
God's Promises » Special promises to children, examples of » To the merciful
For if ye forgive men their offences, your heavenly Father also will forgive you yours,
and thou proffer thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then shall thy light rise in the darkness, and thine obscurity be as midday;
Jehovah will sustain him upon the bed of languishing: thou turnest all his bed in his sickness.
Blessed the merciful, for they shall find mercy.
He scattereth abroad, he giveth to the needy; his righteousness abideth for ever: his horn shall be exalted with honour.
Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall be given into your bosom: for with the same measure with which ye mete it shall be measured to you again.
And the King answering shall say to them, Verily, I say to you, Inasmuch as ye have done it to one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it to me.
Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.
He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker; but he that honoureth Him is gracious to the needy.
Mercy » Man commanded to exercise
Blessed the merciful, for they shall find mercy.
He hath shewn thee, O man, what is good: and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Verse Concepts
Be ye therefore merciful, even as your Father also is merciful.
for judgment will be without mercy to him that has shewn no mercy. Mercy glories over judgment.
And thou, return unto thy God: keep loving-kindness and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.
Let not loving-kindness and truth forsake thee; bind them about thy neck, write them upon the tablet of thy heart: