18 Bible Verses about The Need For Mercy

Blessed are the merciful! For they shall obtain mercy.

But go and learn what this is, I will have mercy and not sacrifice. For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

But if you had known what this is, "I desire mercy and not sacrifice," you would not have condemned those who are not guilty.

and forgive Your people who have sinned against You, even all their sins which they have done against You, and give them pity before their captors, so that they may have pity on them.

Have pity on me! Have pity on me, my friends! For the hand of God has touched me.

Should you not also have pitied your fellow servant, even as I had pity on you?

Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender feelings of mercy, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering,

Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you.

or he who exhorts, in the encouragement; or he who shares, in simplicity; or he who takes the lead, in diligence; or he who shows mercy, in cheerfulness.

For he who has shown no mercy shall have judgment without mercy, and mercy exults over judgment.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does Jehovah require of you but to do justice and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God?

So speaks Jehovah of Hosts, saying, Judge true judgment, and practice kindness and pity, each man to his brother.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and you have left undone the weightier matters of the Law, judgment, mercy, and faith. You ought to have done these and not to leave the other undone.

Charity has patience, is kind; charity is not envious, is not vain, is not puffed up;

But the wisdom that is from above is first truly pure, then peaceable, gentle, 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.

But save others with fear, snatching them out of the fire; hating even the garment having been stained from the flesh.