Bible Verses About Mercy: General references

With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful; With the perfect man thou wilt show thyself perfect;

With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful; With the perfect man thou wilt show thyself perfect;

I have been young, and now am old; Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his seed begging bread.

All the day long he dealeth graciously, and lendeth; And his seed is blessed.

Mercy and truth are met together; Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

Let not kindness and truth forsake thee: Bind them about thy neck; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart:

So shalt thou find favor and good understanding In the sight of God and man.

The merciful man doeth good to his own soul; But he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast; But the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

He that despiseth his neighbor sinneth; But he that hath pity on the poor, happy is he.

Do they not err that devise evil? But mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.

He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker; But he that hath mercy on the needy honoreth him.

Kindness and truth preserve the king; And his throne is upholden by kindness.

He that followeth after righteousness and kindness Findeth life, righteousness, and honor.

Hear the word of Jehovah, ye children of Israel; for Jehovah hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep kindness and justice, and wait for thy God continually.

He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye tithe mint and anise and cummin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law, justice, and mercy, and faith: but these ye ought to have done, and not to have left the other undone.

Be ye merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

or he that exhorteth, to his exhorting: he that giveth, let him do it with liberality; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that showeth mercy, with cheerfulness.

Put on therefore, as God’s elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering;

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye:

For judgment is without mercy to him that hath showed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgment.