18 Bible Verses about The Need For Mercy

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

But you go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners."

But if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the innocent.

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

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

Should not you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?'

Put on therefore, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.

And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does the LORD require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

"Thus has the LORD of hosts spoken, saying, 'Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites. For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the Law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

Love is patient and is kind; love does not envy. Love does not brag, is not proud,

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

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

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