Bible Verses About Mercy: General references

With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect.

With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.

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

All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His seed is blessed.

Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.

A righteous man respects the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who has pity on the poor.

Don’t they go astray who plot evil? But love and faithfulness belong to those who plan good.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

Love and faithfulness keep the king safe. His throne is sustained by love.

He who follows after righteousness and kindness finds life, righteousness, and honor.

Hear the LORD’s word, you children of Israel; for the LORD has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.

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?

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

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

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

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.

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

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Messiah forgave you, so you also do.

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