18 Bible Verses about The Need For Mercy

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

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

And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against thee, 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 ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

Shouldst thou not also have had compassion on thy fellow-servant, even as I had pity on thee?

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering;

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

And be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that showeth mercy, with cheerfulness.

For he shall have judgment without mercy that hath shown no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.

He hath shown thee, O man, what is good; and what the LORD doth require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

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

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint, and anise, and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ye ought to have done, and not to leave the others undone.

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, 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 miserable.

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