18 Bible Verses about The Need For Mercy

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

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.

But if you had known what this means, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the guiltless.

And forgive your people that have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:

Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.

Should not you also have had compassion on your fellow servant, even as I had pity on you?

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;

Be you therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.

And be you kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you.

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.

For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has showed no mercy; and mercy triumphs over judgment.

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?

Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassion every man to his brother:

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.

Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,

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.

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

And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.