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Bible verses about mercy
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Mercy in the Bible is rarely abstract. It is described in transactions: a debt cancelled, a punishment withheld, a person helped who had no claim on the helper.
The passages below keep that concrete quality, and several of them tie receiving mercy directly to showing it.
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22It is because of the LORD’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his mercies don’t fail. 23They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.
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?
4But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, 5even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—
8The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness. 9He will not always accuse; neither will he stay angry forever. 10He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us for our iniquities.
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.
not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
For judgement is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgement.
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible British Edition, which is in the public domain. “World English Bible” is a trademark of eBible.org.