18 Bible Verses About God's Mercy

The study of God's mercy, as unveiled within the sacred pages, offers an indispensable key to understanding the divine heart. Scripture presents this attribute not as a mere concept, but as a vibrant reality, the foundation of our hope and the wellspring of grace. To meditate upon these verses is to enter into a profound communion with the Lord's compassionate nature, allowing His boundless kindness to reshape our perspective and guide our steps. Embrace the scripture; therein lies the revelation of mercy that sustains the soul.

Featured Verse

Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

Seek God's Mercy: Key Bible Verses

And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.

Nehemiah 13:22KJV

Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.

Nehemiah 9:27KJV

Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.

Job 37:23KJV

Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore.

Ezra 10:1KJV

And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this;

Ezra 9:13KJV

Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

Job 33:24KJV

And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.

Ezra 10:2KJV

He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.

Job 37:13KJV

Nevertheless for thy great mercies’ sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.

Nehemiah 9:31KJV

Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard thee also, saith the Lord.

2 Chronicles 34:27KJV

And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

Job 7:21KJV

But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.

Nehemiah 1:9KJV

And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.

Ezra 9:8KJV

Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

Job 13:25KJV

Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

Psalms 4:1KJV

Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?

Job 22:4KJV

Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father’s house have sinned.

Nehemiah 1:6KJV

Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.

Nehemiah 9:32KJV

These sacred words lift the veil, revealing God's mercy not as a fleeting sentiment, but as the steadfast horizon of divine action, an ocean without shore encompassing all our frailties. They testify to a love that reaches beyond our deepest failures, ever ready to pardon and restore. To dwell on these passages is to grasp the profound comfort of a hope that is utterly dependable, rooted in the very nature of Him who is inexhaustibly good. Let this contemplation draw you closer, urging you to cast aside fear, to place your unwavering trust in this infinite clemency, and in turn, to become an instrument of this same boundless mercy in the world.