Bible Verses About Mercy: To backsliders

having risen, I will go on unto my father, and will say to him, Father, I did sin--to the heaven, and before thee,

and no more am I worthy to be called thy son; make me as one of thy hirelings.

`And having risen, he went unto his own father, and he being yet far distant, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and having ran he fell upon his neck and kissed him;

sufficient to such a one is this punishment, that is by the more part,

so that, on the contrary, it is rather for you to forgive and to comfort, lest by over abundant sorrow such a one may be swallowed up;

wherefore, I call upon you to confirm love to him,