20 Bible Verses about Mercifulness
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for Jehovah thy God is a merciful God, he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he swore unto them.
But he was merciful: he forgave the iniquity, and destroyed them not; but many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his fury:
Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith Jehovah: I will not make my face dark upon you; for I am merciful, saith Jehovah; I will not keep anger for ever.
Not because ye were more in number than all the peoples, hath Jehovah been attached to you and chosen you, for ye are the fewest of all the peoples; but because Jehovah loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath Jehovah brought you out with a powerful hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Nevertheless for thy manifold mercies' sake, thou didst not make a full end of them nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.
Therefore thus saith Jehovah: I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith Jehovah of hosts, and the line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.
and his mercy is to generations and generations to them that fear him. He has wrought strength with his arm; he has scattered haughty ones in the thought of their heart. He has put down rulers from thrones, and exalted the lowly.read more.
He has filled the hungry with good things, and sent away the rich empty. He has helped Israel his servant, in order to remember mercy,
Behold, we call them blessed who have endured. Ye have heard of the endurance of Job, and seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is full of tender compassion and pitiful.
And David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall, I pray thee, into the hand of Jehovah; for his mercies are great; but let me not fall into the hand of man.
and forgive thy people their sin against thee, and all their transgressions whereby they have transgressed against thee, and give them to find compassion with those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them
But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity. Redeem me, and be gracious unto me.
{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David; when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba.} Be gracious unto me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness; according to the abundance of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
With the Lord our God are mercies and pardons, for we have rebelled against him;
Be gracious unto me, Jehovah, for I am withered; Jehovah, heal me, for my bones tremble.
Hear, Jehovah; with my voice do I call; be gracious unto me, and answer me.
Yet have respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, Jehovah, my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee this day;
Be gracious unto me, O Jehovah; consider mine affliction from them that hate me, lifting me up from the gates of death:
But when he saw the crowds he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed, and cast away as sheep not having a shepherd.
Wherefore it behoved him in all things to be made like to his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things relating to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people;
And when the evening was come, they brought to him many possessed by demons, and he cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all that were ill;
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Mercifulness » Of david
And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not; for who can stretch forth his hand against Jehovah's anointed, and be guiltless?
And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries to me? Should there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I am this day king over Israel?
Mercifulness » Of Christ
But when they continued asking him, he lifted himself up and said to them, Let him that is without sin among you first cast the stone at her.
Mercifulness » Of saul
But Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day; for to-day Jehovah has wrought deliverance in Israel.
Mercifulness » of Elisha
And he said, Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.
Mercifulness » Solomon
And Solomon said, If he be a worthy man, there shall not one of his hairs fall to the earth; but if wickedness be found in him, he shall die.
Social duties » Mercifulness » Of giving just weights
A false balance is an abomination to Jehovah; but a just weight is his delight.
Shall I be pure with the unjust balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin shall ye have: I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
The just balance and scales are Jehovah's; all the weights of the bag are his work.
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
Social duties » Mercifulness » Of good example
By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained testimony of being righteous, God bearing testimony to his gifts, and by it, having died, he yet speaks.
Take as an example, brethren, of suffering and having patience, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord.
for I have given you an example that, as I have done to you, ye should do also.
For to this have ye been called; for Christ also has suffered for you, leaving you a model that ye should follow in his steps:
not that we have not the right, but that we might give ourselves as an example to you, in order to your imitating us.
Social duties » Mercifulness » Of david
And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not; for who can stretch forth his hand against Jehovah's anointed, and be guiltless?
And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries to me? Should there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I am this day king over Israel?
Social duties » Mercifulness » Of Christ
But when they continued asking him, he lifted himself up and said to them, Let him that is without sin among you first cast the stone at her.
Social duties » Mercifulness » Of saul
But Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day; for to-day Jehovah has wrought deliverance in Israel.
Social duties » Mercifulness » of Elisha
And he said, Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.
Social duties » Mercifulness » Solomon
And Solomon said, If he be a worthy man, there shall not one of his hairs fall to the earth; but if wickedness be found in him, he shall die.
