49 Bible Verses about Mercy
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For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has showed no mercy; and mercy triumphs over judgment.
For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
But go and learn what that means, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endures to all generations.
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?
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endures forever.
Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
Therefore has he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardens.
For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his abundant mercy has begotten us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
And David said unto Gad, I am in a great distress: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
(For the LORD your God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore unto them.
O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good; for his mercy endures forever.
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.
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Mercy » Sought
[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.] Have mercy upon me, O God, according to your lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of your tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
O LORD, I have heard your speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive your work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy.
O Lord, according to all your righteousness, I beseech you, let your anger and your fury be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all that are about us.
And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
Mercy » Promises of divine
Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, you backsliding Israel, says the LORD; and I will not cause my anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, says the LORD, and I will not keep anger forever.
Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Mercy » Neglect of
I was a stranger, and you took me not in: naked, and you clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and you visited me not.
Because he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
Whosoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
The diseased have you not strengthened, neither have you healed those who were sick, neither have you bound up those who were broken, neither have you brought again those who were driven away, neither have you sought those who were lost; but with force and with cruelty have you ruled them.
Mercy » God's
These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved forever.
The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: your arrows also went abroad.
LORD, when you went out of Seir, when you marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
Do you know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is blameless in knowledge?
Mercy » Man commanded to exercise
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?
The merciful man does good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubles his own flesh.
For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has showed no mercy; and mercy triumphs over judgment.
Mercy » The merciful
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me. For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God. For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them. read more.
I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from my iniquity. Therefore the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eyesight. With the merciful you will show yourself merciful, and with the upright man you will show yourself upright.
Therefore has the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight. With the merciful you will show yourself merciful; with an upright man you will show yourself upright;
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. He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
Mercy » Who shall have mercy
Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusts in the LORD, mercy shall surround him.
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he comes and rains righteousness upon you.
He that covers his sins shall not prosper: but whosoever confesses and forsakes them shall have mercy.
All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
Mercy » Divine mercy
For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; and abundant in mercy unto all them that call upon you.
(For the LORD your God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore unto them.
And David said unto Gad, I am in a great distress: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
Mercy » Encouraged
Therefore turn you to your God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on your God continually.
And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I slay them? shall I slay them? And he answered, You shall not slay them: would you slay those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master. And he prepared a great feast for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.
Therefore if your enemy hungers, feed him; if he thirsts, give him drink: for in so doing you shall heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Mercy » Being merciful
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassion every man to his brother:
Mercy » Forgives sin
Who is a God like unto you, who pardons iniquity, and passes by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retains not his anger forever, because he delights in mercy.
Mercy » What mercy does
By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.
For you, O God, have heard my vows: you have given me the heritage of those that fear your name. You will prolong the king's life: and his years as many generations. He shall abide before God forever: O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him.
Mercy » Should be shown » To backsliders
I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before you, And am no more worthy to be called your son: make me as one of your hired servants. And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many. So that instead you ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with too much sorrow. Therefore I beseech you that you would confirm your love toward him.
Mercy » Who shows mercy
He that oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker: but he that honors him has mercy on the poor.
Mercy » Should be shown » To the poor
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.
He that oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker: but he that honors him has mercy on the poor.
Mercy » Blessedness of showing
Mercy » Boundless
For your mercy is great above the heavens: and your truth reaches unto the clouds.
Mercy » Eternal
But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;
Praise you the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endures forever.
Mercy » Mercy belonging to the lord
To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;
Also unto you, O Lord, belongs mercy: for you render to every man according to his work.
Mercy » What is full of mercy
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.
All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
Mercy » Characteristic of saints
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.
Mercy » Denunciations against those devoid of
Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwells in it shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fish of the sea also shall be taken away.
Hear the word of the LORD, you children of Israel: for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land: Because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
Mercy » Prolongs life
It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is your faithfulness.
Mercy » Instances of » David, to saul
And he said to David, you are more righteous than I: for you have rewarded me with good, whereas I have rewarded you with evil.
Behold, this day your eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered you today into my hand in the cave: and some bade me kill you: but my eye spared you; and I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord; for he is the LORD'S anointed. Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of your robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and killed you not, know you and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in my hand, and I have not sinned against you; yet you hunt my soul to take it. The LORD judge between me and you, and the LORD avenge me of you: but my hand shall not be upon you. read more.
As says the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceeds from the wicked: but my hand shall not be upon you.
Mercy » Should be shown » To animals
A righteous man regards the life of his animal: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
Mercy » Those that follow after mercy
Mercy » Beneficial to those who exercise
The merciful man does good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubles his own flesh.
Mercy » Upholds the throne of kings
Mercy » Should be shown » To our brethren
Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassion every man to his brother:
Mercy » Hypocrites, devoid of
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, justice, mercy, and faith: these ought you to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Mercy » To be engraved on the heart
Let not mercy and truth forsake you: bind them about your neck; write them upon the table of your heart:
Mercy » Should be shown » With cheerfulness
Or he that exhorts, on exhortation: he that gives, let him do it in simplicity; he that rules, with diligence; he that shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
Mercy » Instances of » The prison keeper, to joseph
But the LORD was with Joseph, and showed him mercy, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison. And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it. The keeper of the prison looked not to anything that was under his hand; because the LORD was with him, and that which he did, the LORD made it to prosper.
Mercy » Should be shown » To those that are in distress
And he said, He that showed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do you likewise.
Mercy » Instances of » The israelites to the man of beth-el
And the house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.) And the spies saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said unto him, Show us, we pray you, the entrance into the city, and we will show you mercy. And when he showed them the entrance into the city, they struck the city with the edge of the sword; but they let go the man and all his family. read more.
And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name thereof Luz: which is its name until this day.
Mercy » Keeping mercy
Therefore turn you to your God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on your God continually.
Mercy » After the example of God
Mercy » Makes salvation possible
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Spirit;
Mercy » Encourages to penitence
And tear your hearts, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and relents from sending calamity.
Mercy » Instances of » Joshua to rahab
And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had; and she dwells in Israel even unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
The favor of God » Is the source of » Mercy
And the sons of foreigners shall build up your walls, and their kings shall minister unto you: for in my wrath I struck you, but in my favor have I had mercy on you.
Waiting upon God » For » Mercy
Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until he has mercy upon us.
Topics on Mercy
Abundant Mercy
1 Peter 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his abundant mercy has begotten us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
God Showed Mercy
Isaiah 60:10And the sons of foreigners shall build up your walls, and their kings shall minister unto you: for in my wrath I struck you, but in my favor have I had mercy on you.
God Will Show Mercy
Romans 9:15For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
God Without Mercy
Deuteronomy 7:2And when the LORD your God shall deliver them over to you; you shall strike them, and utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them:
God's Mercy, Example Of
Genesis 19:16And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him outside the city.
Mercy And Grace
2 John 1:3Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
Mercy Seat
Exodus 25:17-22And you shall make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it.
Mercy, Examples Of
1 Samuel 11:13And Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day: for today the LORD has wrought salvation in Israel.
Mercy, Of Jesus Christ
Luke 4:16-21And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up to read.
Mercy, Response To God's
Romans 12:1I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
People Showing Mercy
Psalm 72:13He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.
People Without Mercy
Romans 1:31Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Propitiatory [Mercy Seat]
Exodus 25:17And you shall make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it.
Receiving God's Mercy
Psalm 106:46He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.
Show No Mercy
Deuteronomy 7:16And you shall consume all the people whom the LORD your God shall deliver you; your eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto you.