Bible Verses About Mercy: General references

With the holy one thou wilt be holy: and with the valiant perfect.

With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;

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

He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.

For thou art great and dost wonderful things: thou art God alone.

Let not mercy aud truth leave thee, put them about thy neck, and write them in the tables of thy heart.

And thou shalt find grace, and good understanding before God and men.

A merciful man doth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel casteth off even his own kindred.

The just regardeth the lives of his beasts: but the bowels of the wicked are cruel.

He that despiseth his neighbour, sinneth: but he that sheweth mercy to the poor, shall be blessed. He that believeth in the Lord, loveth mercy.

They err that work evil: but mercy and truth prepare good things.

He that oppresseth the poor, upbraideth his maker: but he that hath pity on the poor, honoureth him.

Mercy and truth preserve the king, and his throne is strengthened by clemency.

He that followeth justice and mercy, shall find life, justice, and glory.

Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel, for the Lord shall enter into judgment with the inhabitants of the land: for there is no truth, and there is no mercy, and there is no knowledge of God in the land.

Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and hope in thy God always.

I will shew thee, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requireth of thee: Verily to do judgment, and to love mercy, and to walk solicitous with thy God.

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you tithe mint and anise and cummin and have left the weightier things of the law: judgment and mercy and faith. These things you ought to have done and not to leave those undone.

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

He that exhorteth, in exhorting; he that giveth, with simplicity; he that ruleth, with carefulness; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.

Put ye on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, the bowels of mercy, benignity, humility, modesty, patience:

Bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if any have a complaint against another. Even as the Lord hath forgiven you, so do you also.

For judgment without mercy to him that hath not done mercy. And mercy exalteth itself above judgment.