'Mercy' in the Bible

and when the Lord your God delivers them over to you and you defeat them, you must completely destroy them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.

Nothing set apart for destruction is to remain in your hand, so that the Lord will turn from His burning anger and grant you mercy, show you compassion, and multiply you as He swore to your fathers.

For it was the Lord’s intention to harden their hearts, so that they would engage Israel in battle, be completely destroyed without mercy, and be annihilated, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy,because they have sinned against You,and they return to You and praise Your name,and they pray and plead with Youfor mercy in this temple,

If Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy,because they have sinned against You,and they return to You and praise Your name,and they pray and plead for mercybefore You in this temple,

for when you return to Yahweh, your brothers and your sons will receive mercy in the presence of their captors and will return to this land. For Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful; He will not turn His face away from you if you return to Him.”

But if you earnestly seek Godand ask the Almighty for mercy,

Even if I were in the right, I could not answer.I could only beg my Judge for mercy.

His archers surround me.He pierces my kidneys without mercyand pours my bile on the ground.

Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy,for God’s hand has struck me.

It blasts at him without mercy,while he flees desperately from its grasp.

Will he beg you for mercyor speak softly to you?

Lord, hear my prayer;listen to my plea for mercy.

I love the Lord because He has heardmy appeal for mercy.

A Davidic Maskil. When he was in the cave. A prayer.I cry aloud to the Lord;I plead aloud to the Lord for mercy.

For jealousy enrages a husband,and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.

The one who conceals his sinswill not prosper,but whoever confesses and renounces themwill find mercy.

Therefore the Lord is waiting to show you mercy,and is rising up to show you compassion,for the Lord is a just God.All who wait patiently for Him are happy.

I was angry with My people;I profaned My possession,and I placed them under your control.You showed them no mercy;you made your yoke very heavy on the elderly.

Foreigners will build up your walls,and their kings will serve you.Although I struck you in My wrath,yet I will show mercy to you with My favor.

A sound is heard on the barren heights,the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy,for they have perverted their way;they have forgotten the Lord their God.

They grasp bow and javelin.They are cruel and show no mercy.Their voice roars like the sea,and they ride on horses,lined up like men in battle formationagainst you, Daughter Zion.

I will smash them against each other, fathers and sons alike”—this is the Lord’s declaration. “I will allow no mercy, pity, or compassion to keep Me from destroying them.”

They grasp bow and javelin.They are cruel and show no mercy.Their voice roars like the sea,and they ride on horses,lined up like men in battle formationagainst you, Daughter Babylon.

urging them to ask the God of heaven for mercy concerning this mystery, so Daniel and his friends would not be killed with the rest of Babylon’s wise men.

Therefore, may my advice seem good to you my king. Separate yourself from your sins by doing what is right, and from your injustices by showing mercy to the needy. Perhaps there will be an extension of your prosperity.”

Will they therefore empty their netand continually slaughter nations without mercy?

Lord, I have heard the report about You;Lord, I stand in awe of Your deeds.Revive Your work in these years;make it known in these years.In Your wrath remember mercy!

Then the Angel of the Lord responded, “How long, Lord of Hosts, will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah that You have been angry with these 70 years?”

The merciful are blessed,for they will be shown mercy.

Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice. For I didn’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed Him, shouting, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!”

If you had known what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the innocent.

Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came and kept crying out, “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is cruelly tormented by a demon.”

“Lord,” he said, “have mercy on my son, because he has seizures and suffers severely. He often falls into the fire and often into the water.

Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow slave, as I had mercy on you?’

There were two blind men sitting by the road. When they heard that Jesus was passing by, they cried out, “Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!”

The crowd told them to keep quiet, but they cried out all the more, “Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!”

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You pay a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, yet you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy, and faith. These things should have been done without neglecting the others.

But He would not let him; instead, He told him, “Go back home to your own people, and report to them how much the Lord has done for you and how He has had mercy on you.”

When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out, “Son of David, Jesus, have mercy on me!”

Many people told him to keep quiet, but he was crying out all the more, “Have mercy on me, Son of David!”

His mercy is from generation to generationon those who fear Him.

He has helped His servant Israel,mindful of His mercy,

Then her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her His great mercy, and they rejoiced with her.

“The one who showed mercy to him,” he said.Then Jesus told him, “Go and do the same.”

‘Father Abraham!’ he called out, ‘Have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this flame!’

and raised their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”

So he called out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”

Then those in front told him to keep quiet, but he kept crying out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”

For He tells Moses:I will show mercyto whom I will show mercy,and I will have compassionon whom I will have compassion.

So then it does not depend on human will or effort but on God who shows mercy.

So then, He shows mercy to those He wants to, and He hardens those He wants to harden.

And what if He did this to make known the riches of His glory on objects of mercy that He prepared beforehand for glory—

As you once disobeyed God, but now have received mercy through their disobedience,

so they too have now disobeyed, resulting in mercy to you, so that they also now may receive mercy.

For God has imprisoned all in disobedience, so that He may have mercy on all.

if exhorting, in exhortation;giving, with generosity;leading, with diligence;showing mercy, with cheerfulness.

and so that Gentiles may glorify God for His mercy. As it is written:Therefore I will praise You among the Gentiles,and I will sing psalms to Your name.

About virgins: I have no command from the Lord, but I do give an opinion as one who by the Lord’s mercy is trustworthy.

Therefore, since we have this ministry because we were shown mercy, we do not give up.

May peace come to all those who follow this standard, and mercy to the Israel of God!

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love that He had for us,

If then there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any affection and mercy,

Indeed, he was so sick that he nearly died. However, God had mercy on him, and not only on him but also on me, so that I would not have one grief on top of another.

To Timothy, my true son in the faith.Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

one who was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an arrogant man. But I received mercy because I acted out of ignorance in unbelief.

But I received mercy for this reason, so that in me, the worst of them, Christ Jesus might demonstrate His extraordinary patience as an example to those who would believe in Him for eternal life.

To Timothy, my dearly loved son.Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains.

May the Lord grant that he obtain mercy from Him on that day. And you know very well how much he ministered at Ephesus.

He saved us—not by works of righteousness that we had done,but according to His mercy,through the washing of regenerationand renewal by the Holy Spirit.

Therefore let us approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us at the proper time.

If anyone disregards Moses’ law, he dies without mercy, based on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

For judgment is without mercy to the one who hasn’t shown mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peace-loving, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without favoritism and hypocrisy.

Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. According to His great mercy, He has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead

Once you were not a people,but now you are God’s people;you had not received mercy,but now you have received mercy.

Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.

keep yourselves in the love of God, expecting the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ for eternal life.

Have mercy on those who doubt;

save others by snatching them from the fire; have mercy on others but with fear, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh.