18 Bible Verses about The Need For Mercy

“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.

But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire compassion, and not sacrifice,’ for I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire compassion, and not a sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.

and forgive Your people who have sinned against You and all their transgressions which they have transgressed against You, and make them objects of compassion before those who have taken them captive, that they may have compassion on them

“Pity me, pity me, O you my friends,
For the hand of God has struck me.

Should you not also have had mercy on your fellow slave, in the same way that I had mercy on you?’

So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience;

Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.

or he who exhorts, in his exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.

He has told you, O man, what is good;
And what does the Lord require of you
But to do justice, to love kindness,
And to walk humbly with your God?

“Thus has the Lord of hosts said, ‘Dispense true justice and practice kindness and compassion each to his brother;

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.

Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant,

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy.

If we have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men most to be pitied.

save others, snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment polluted by the flesh.