Topic
Mercy
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“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.
For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.
But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail. — read the full passage →
Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.
Praise Yahweh, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name! — read the full passage →
“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful. — read the full passage →
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,
Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Yahweh, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness, for they are from old times. — read the full passage →
So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom. — read the full passage →
But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, — read the full passage →
bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.
He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.
No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh. — read the full passage →
For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who has pity on the poor.
Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?” — read the full passage →
Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.
Yahweh, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness, for they are from old times.
With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect.
For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
He who follows after righteousness and kindness finds life, righteousness, and honor.
The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.
Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.
Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →
Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail.
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.
Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.
Mercy to you and peace and love be multiplied.
He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim Yahweh’s name before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”
But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children shall find compassion before those who led them captive, and shall come again into this land: for Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.”
“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me. — read the full passage →
However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience, for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.
Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.
David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let us fall now into the hand of Yahweh; for his mercies are great. Let me not fall into the hand of man.”
Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
who in time past were no people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.
Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth, — read the full passage →
Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says Yahweh; ‘I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will not keep anger forever.
and when Yahweh your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them;
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →
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.
let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever. — read the full passage →
Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
His mercy is for generations of generations on those who fear him.
But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.
For Yahweh your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.
Not to us, Yahweh, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your loving kindness, and for your truth’s sake.
He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.
“Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you did not make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God.
For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.
But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever.
He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.
For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” — read the full passage →
Yahweh, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness, for they are from old times. — read the full passage →
Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.
because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the dawn from on high will visit us,
A righteous man respects the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. — read the full passage →
Out of the depths I have cried to you, Yahweh. — read the full passage →
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.
Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
But Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison. — read the full passage →
and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →
He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.
“Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. — read the full passage →
For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, until disaster has passed. — read the full passage →
You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth. — read the full passage →
But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
He didn’t allow him, but said to him, “Go to your house, to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you.”
They shall be mine,” says Yahweh of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.
So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.
Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever. — read the full passage →
Praise Yahweh! Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.
Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.
For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
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