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Top 14 most popular verses about mercy
"But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved."
— Ephesians 2:4-5
"The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love."
— Psalm 103:8
"Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy."
— Matthew 5:7
"If you, LORD, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness, so that we can, with reverence, serve you."
— Psalm 130:3-4
"Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon."
— Isaiah 55:7
"Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness."
— Lamentations 3:22-23
"he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit."
— Titus 3:5
"Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful."
— Luke 6:36
"Let us then approach God's throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need."
— Hebrews 4:16
"And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, "The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin.""
— Exodus 34:6-7
"He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God."
— Micah 6:8
"because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment."
— James 2:13
"Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy."
— Micah 7:18
"Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions."
— Psalm 51:1
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"The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love."
— Psalm 103:8
Context: God's character - compassionate, gracious, and abounding in love.
"Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness."
— Lamentations 3:22-23
Context: God's mercy is new every morning - never fails.
"And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, "The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin.""
— Exodus 34:6-7
Context: God's self-revelation - compassionate, forgiving, abounding in mercy.
"But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness."
— Psalm 86:15
Context: God is compassionate and gracious - abundant in mercy.
"They refused to listen and failed to remember the miracles you performed among them. They became stiff-necked and in their rebellion appointed a leader in order to return to their slavery. But you are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love."
— Nehemiah 9:17
Context: Even in rebellion, God is gracious, compassionate, and forgiving.
"Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy."
— Micah 7:18
Context: God delights to show mercy - pardons sin and forgives.
"The LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love. The LORD is good to all; he has compassion on all he has made."
— Psalm 145:8-9
Context: God is rich in love and compassion for all he has made.
"Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity."
— Joel 2:13
Context: God is gracious and compassionate - relents from calamity.
"The LORD is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion."
— Psalm 116:5
Context: God is full of compassion - gracious and righteous.
"The Lord our God is merciful and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him."
— Daniel 9:9
Context: God is merciful and forgiving even in our rebellion.
"As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him."
— Psalm 103:13
Context: God's compassion like a father's love for children.
"If you return to the LORD, then your fellow Israelites and your children will be shown compassion by their captors and will return to this land, for the LORD your God is gracious and compassionate. He will not turn his face from you if you return to him."
— 2 Chronicles 30:9
Context: God is gracious and compassionate - never turns away.
"and with you, Lord, is unfailing love; and, You reward everyone according to what they have done."
— Psalm 62:12
Context: God's unfailing love and mercy endure forever.
""Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed," says the LORD, who has compassion on you."
— Isaiah 54:10
Context: God's unfailing love and compassion never shaken.
"Remember, LORD, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old."
— Psalm 25:6
Context: God's mercy and love are from of old - eternal.
"But from everlasting to everlasting the LORD's love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children's children."
— Psalm 103:17
Context: God's mercy is everlasting for those who fear him.
"For great is your love, reaching to the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies."
— Psalm 57:10
Context: God's love and mercy reach to the heavens.
How we obtain mercy from God
"But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved."
— Ephesians 2:4-5
Context: God is rich in mercy - made us alive in Christ.
"he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit."
— Titus 3:5
Context: Saved by God's mercy, not our works - rebirth and renewal.
"Let us then approach God's throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need."
— Hebrews 4:16
Context: Approach God's throne with confidence - receive mercy and grace.
"Even though I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man, I was shown mercy because I acted in ignorance and unbelief."
— 1 Timothy 1:13
Context: God shows mercy even to the worst sinners.
"Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience, so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now receive mercy as a result of God's mercy to you. For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all."
— Romans 11:30-32
Context: God has mercy on all - bound all to disobedience to show mercy.
"His mercy extends to those who fear him, from generation to generation."
— Luke 1:50
Context: God's mercy extends through all generations to those who fear him.
"Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions."
— Psalm 51:1
Context: David's plea for mercy - God's unfailing love and compassion.
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead."
— 1 Peter 1:3
Context: In great mercy, God gives us new birth and living hope.
"For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion." It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God's mercy."
— Romans 9:15-16
Context: Salvation depends not on us, but on God's mercy.
"As the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a female slave look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the LORD our God, till he shows us his mercy."
— Psalm 123:2
Context: Look to God until he shows his mercy.
"keep yourselves in God's love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life."
— Jude 1:21
Context: Wait for Christ's mercy that brings eternal life.
"But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.'"
— Luke 18:13
Context: The tax collector's humble plea - God have mercy on me.
"Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am faint; heal me, LORD, for my bones are in agony."
— Psalm 6:2
Context: Prayer for mercy in times of suffering and distress.
"I said, "Have mercy on me, LORD; heal me, for I have sinned against you.""
— Psalm 41:4
Context: Confession of sin with plea for mercy and healing.
"May the Lord show mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains."
— 2 Timothy 1:18
Context: Prayer for God's mercy on those who serve faithfully.
"May your unfailing love be with us, LORD, even as we put our hope in you."
— Psalm 33:22
Context: Hope in God's unfailing love and mercy.
The power and victory of mercy
"Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy."
— Matthew 5:7
Context: Beatitude - the merciful will receive mercy.
"Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful."
— Luke 6:36
Context: Command to be merciful as God is merciful.
"He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God."
— Micah 6:8
Context: God requires us to love mercy - act justly and walk humbly.
"This is what the LORD Almighty said: 'Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another.'"
— Zechariah 7:9
Context: Show mercy and compassion to one another - God's command.
"Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience."
— Colossians 3:12
Context: Clothe yourself with compassion and mercy.
"because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment."
— James 2:13
Context: Mercy triumphs over judgment - be merciful.
"Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God."
— Proverbs 14:31
Context: Showing mercy to the needy honors God.
"But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."
— Matthew 9:13
Context: God desires mercy, not sacrifice - show mercy to sinners.
"Whoever pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity and honor."
— Proverbs 21:21
Context: Pursue mercy and righteousness - find life and honor.
"But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere."
— James 3:17
Context: Heavenly wisdom is full of mercy and good fruit.
"Those who are kind benefit themselves, but the cruel bring ruin on themselves."
— Proverbs 11:17
Context: Showing mercy benefits you - cruelty brings ruin.
"But you must return to your God; maintain love and justice, and wait for your God always."
— Hosea 12:6
Context: Maintain love, mercy, and justice always.
"Be merciful to those who doubt; save others by snatching them from the fire; to others show mercy, mixed with fear—hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh."
— Jude 1:22-23
Context: Show mercy to doubters and those caught in sin.
"Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will reward them for what they have done."
— Proverbs 19:17
Context: Kindness to the poor is lending to God - mercy rewarded.
"Shouldn't you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?"
— Matthew 18:33
Context: Jesus' parable - show mercy as you have received mercy.
"Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble."
— 1 Peter 3:8
Context: Be compassionate and merciful to one another.
Being merciful as our Father is merciful
"If you, LORD, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness, so that we can, with reverence, serve you."
— Psalm 130:3-4
Context: God keeps no record of sins - with him is forgiveness.
"Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon."
— Isaiah 55:7
Context: Turn to God and he will have mercy - freely pardons.
"Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign LORD. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?"
— Ezekiel 18:23
Context: God takes no pleasure in judgment - desires repentance.
"The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance."
— 2 Peter 3:9
Context: God is patient - wants all to repent, not perish.
"Say to them, 'As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, people of Israel?'"
— Ezekiel 33:11
Context: God pleads for repentance - no pleasure in death.
"He prayed to the LORD, "Isn't this what I said, LORD, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity.""
— Jonah 4:2
Context: God relents from sending calamity - abundant in mercy.
"LORD, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, LORD. Repeat them in our day, in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy."
— Habakkuk 3:2
Context: In wrath, God remembers mercy.
"Yet he was merciful; he forgave their iniquities and did not destroy them. Time after time he restrained his anger and did not stir up his full wrath."
— Psalm 78:38
Context: God is merciful - restrains anger and forgives.
""Return, faithless Israel," declares the LORD, "I will frown on you no longer, for I am faithful," declares the LORD, "I will not be angry forever.""
— Jeremiah 3:12
Context: God will not be angry forever - calls us to return.
""How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I treat you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboyim? My heart is changed within me; all my compassion is aroused. I will not carry out my fierce anger, nor will I devastate Ephraim again. For I am God, and not a man—the Holy One among you. I will not come against their cities.""
— Hosea 11:8-9
Context: God's compassion aroused - will not carry out fierce anger.
"Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, forbearance and patience, not realizing that God's kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?"
— Romans 2:4
Context: God's kindness and mercy lead to repentance.
"For no one is cast off by the Lord forever. Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love."
— Lamentations 3:31-32
Context: God shows compassion - unfailing love is great.
"David said to Gad, "I am in deep distress. Let me fall into the hands of the LORD, for his mercy is very great; but do not let me fall into human hands.""
— 1 Chronicles 21:13
Context: God's mercy is very great - better to fall into his hands.
"You, Lord, are forgiving and good, abounding in love to all who call to you."
— Psalm 86:5
Context: God is forgiving and abounding in love to all.
"But in your great mercy you did not put an end to them or abandon them, for you are a gracious and merciful God."
— Nehemiah 9:31
Context: God never abandons - gracious and merciful.
"he does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities."
— Psalm 103:10
Context: God does not treat us as our sins deserve - his mercy.
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