69 Bible Verses About Showing Mercy

And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord.

Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.

Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?

For thy name’s sake, O Lord, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.

My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.

And began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews!

And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.

And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.

And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty’s sake.

Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.

And Moses took the redemption money of them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites:

So Joab came to the king, and told him: and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king: and the king kissed Absalom.

The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.

O Lord God of Israel, thou art righteous: for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this.

And, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the Lord, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.

And the priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them; for it is ignorance: and they shall bring their offering, a sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord, for their ignorance:

Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.

And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in the holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him.

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children;

And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.

And thou hast shewed this day how that thou hast dealt well with me: forasmuch as when the Lord had delivered me into thine hand, thou killedst me not.

When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the Lord thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,

Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.

And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.

Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.

Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave.

If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:

Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.

And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee.

And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.

And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer–sheba.

And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands; and said, Let us not kill him.

And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

The Lord is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.

And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the Lord is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.

My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.

Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.

He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.

And when he shewed them the entrance into the city, they smote the city with the edge of the sword; but they let go the man and all his family.

And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.

He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;

Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.

Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.

And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom.

Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me thy statutes.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the Lord: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.

Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul sware, As the Lord liveth, he shall not be slain.

The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the Lord.

That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:

O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.

God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.

Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother’s womb.

And the Lord said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.

And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not.

And the spies saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said unto him, Shew us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city, and we will shew thee mercy.

For in very deed, as the Lord God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.

And Saul said, Blessed be ye of the Lord; for ye have compassion on me.

He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.

For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee:

And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.