Mercy of God
Note: The Mercy of God is combined with truth.
And he said, “Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who has not
forsaken His mercy and His truth toward my master. As for me, being on
the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master’s brethren.” Genesis
24:27
And Solomon said: “You have shown great mercy to Your servant David my
father, because he walked before You in truth, in righteousness, and in
uprightness of heart with You; You have continued this great kindness
for him, and You have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is
this day. 1 Kings 3:6
All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth, to such as keep His covenant and His testimonies. Psalms 25:10
Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me! For my soul trusts in You;
And in the shadow of Your wings I will make my refuge, until these
calamities have passed by. I will cry out to God Most High, to God who
performs all things for me. He shall send from heaven and save me; He
reproaches the one who would swallow me up. God shall send forth His
mercy and His truth. Psalms 57:1-3
I will praise You, O Lord, among the peoples; I will sing to You among
the nations. For Your mercy reaches unto the heavens, and Your truth
unto the clouds. Psalms 57:9-10
But as for me, my prayer is to You, O LORD, in the acceptable time; O
God, in the multitude of Your mercy, hear me in the truth of Your
salvation. Psalms 69:13
But You, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering and abundant in mercy and truth. Psalms 86:15
For the LORD is good; His mercy is everlasting, and His truth endures to all generations. Psalms 100:5
I will praise You, O LORD, among the peoples, and I will sing praises
to You among the nations. For Your mercy is great above the heavens,
and Your truth reaches to the clouds. Psalms 108:3-4
Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but to Your name give glory, because of Your mercy, because of Your truth. Psalms 115:1
In mercy and truth atonement is provided for iniquity; And by the fear of the LORD one departs from evil. Proverbs 16:6
Note: God shows mercy to people who love Him.
“You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of
anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or
that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them
nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting
the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth
generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to
those who love Me and keep My commandments.” Exodus 20:4-6
You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything
that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in
the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve
them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity
of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of
those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me
and keep My commandments. Deuteronomy 5:8-10
“Therefore, know that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God
who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who
love Him and keep His commandments; and He repays those who hate Him to
their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack with him who hates
Him; He will repay him to his face. Therefore, you shall keep the
commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I command you today,
to observe them. Deuteronomy 7:9-11
Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all
the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven; and he
said: “LORD God of Israel, there is no God in heaven above or on earth
below like You, who keep Your covenant and mercy with Your servants who
walk before You with all their hearts. 1 Kings 8:22-23
And I said: “I pray, LORD God of heaven, O great and awesome God, You
who keep Your covenant and mercy with those who love You and observe
Your commandments, please let Your ear be attentive and Your eyes open,
that You may hear the prayer of Your servant which I pray before You
now, day and night, for the children of Israel Your servants, and
confess the sins of the children of Israel which we have sinned against
You. Nehemiah 1:5-6
Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and
supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes. And I prayed to the
LORD my God, and made confession, and said, “O Lord, great and awesome
God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with
those who keep His commandments, we have sinned and committed iniquity,
we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your
precepts and Your judgments. Daniel 9:3-5
Note: The mercy of God will establish the throne of David forever.
“When your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will
set up your seed after you, who will come from your body, and I will
establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for My name, and I will
establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be his Father, and
he shall be My son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the
rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men. But My mercy shall
not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I removed from before
you. And your house and your kingdom shall be established forever
before you. Your throne shall be established forever.” 2 Samuel 7:12-16
“He is the tower of salvation to His king, and shows mercy to His
anointed, to David and his descendants forevermore.” 2 Samuel 22:51
“Furthermore, I tell you that the LORD will build you a house. And it
shall be, when your days are fulfilled, when you must go to be with
your fathers, that I will set up your seed after you, who will be of
your sons; and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build Me a house,
and I will establish his throne forever. 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 who was before you. And I will establish him in My house
and in My kingdom forever; and his throne shall be established
forever.” 1 Chronicles 17:10-14
Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever. 1 Chronicles 16:34
indeed it came to pass, when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to
make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD, and when
they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and
instruments of music, and praised the LORD, saying: “For He is good,
for His mercy endures forever,” that the house, the house of the LORD,
was filled with a cloud, so that the priests could not continue
ministering because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the
house of God. 2 Chronicles 5:13-14
When Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and
consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the
LORD filled the temple. And the priests could not enter the house of
the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD’s house.
When all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the
glory of the LORD on the temple, they bowed their faces to the ground
on the pavement, and worshiped and praised the LORD, saying: “For He is
good, for His mercy endures forever.” 2 Chronicles 7:1-3
“In mercy the throne will be established; And One will sit on it in
truth, in the tabernacle of David, judging and seeking justice and
hastening righteousness.” Isaiah 16:5
Note: The Mercy of God endures forever.
Praise the LORD! Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever. Psalms 106:1
Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever. Psalms 107:1
Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His mercy endures
forever. Let Israel now say, “His mercy endures forever.” Let the house
of Aaron now say, “His mercy endures forever.” Let those who fear the
LORD now say, “His mercy endures forever.” Psalms 118:1-4
Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever. Psalms 118:29
Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His mercy endures
forever. Oh, give thanks to the God of gods! For His mercy endures
forever. Oh, give thanks to the Lord of lords! For His mercy endures
forever: To Him who alone does great wonders, for His mercy endures
forever; To Him who by wisdom made the heavens, for His mercy endures
forever; To Him who laid out the earth above the waters, for His mercy
endures forever; To Him who made great lights, for His mercy endures
forever— The sun to rule by day, for His mercy endures forever; The
moon and stars to rule by night, for His mercy endures forever. To Him
who struck Egypt in their firstborn, for His mercy endures forever; And
brought out Israel from among them, for His mercy endures forever; With
a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm, for His mercy endures
forever; To Him who divided the Red Sea in two, for His mercy endures
forever; And made Israel pass through the midst of it, for His mercy
endures forever; But overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea, for
His mercy endures forever; To Him who led His people through the
wilderness, for His mercy endures forever; To Him who struck down great
kings, for His mercy endures forever; And slew famous kings, for His
mercy endures forever— Sihon king of the Amorites, for His mercy
endures forever; And Og king of Bashan, for His mercy endures forever—
and gave their land as a heritage, for His mercy endures forever; A
heritage to Israel His servant, for His mercy endures forever. Who
remembered us in our lowly state, for His mercy endures forever; And
rescued us from our enemies, for His mercy endures forever; Who gives
food to all flesh, for His mercy endures forever. Oh, give thanks to
the God of heaven! For His mercy endures forever. Psalms 136:1-26
The LORD will perfect that which concerns me; Your mercy, O LORD,
endures forever; Do not forsake the works of Your hands. Psalms 138:8
“Thus says the LORD: ‘Again there shall be heard in this place—of which
you say, “It is desolate, without man and without beast”—in the cities
of Judah, in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man
and without inhabitant and without beast, 11 the voice of joy and the
voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the
bride, the voice of those who will say: “Praise the LORD of hosts, for
the LORD is good, for His mercy endures forever”— and of those who will
bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will
cause the captives of the land to return as at first,’ says the LORD.
Jeremiah 33:10-11
Note: The Mercy of God is salvation.
But I have trusted in Your mercy; My heart shall rejoice in Your salvation. Psalms 13:5
But as for me, my prayer is to You, O LORD, in the acceptable time; O
God, in the multitude of Your mercy, hear me in the truth of Your
salvation. Psalms 69:13
Show us Your mercy, LORD, and grant us Your salvation. Psalms 85:7
He has remembered His mercy and His faithfulness to the house of
Israel; All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Psalms 98:3
But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man
appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but
according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration
and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly
through Jesus Christ our Savior, that having been justified by His
grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Titus 3:4-7
Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the
heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we
do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses,
but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us
therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy
and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:14-16
Note: Jesus Christ taught mercy.
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Matthew 5:7
Now it happened, as Jesus sat at the table in the house, that behold,
many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Him and His
disciples. And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to His disciples,
“Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” When Jesus
heard that, He said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a
physician, but those who are sick. But go and learn what this means: I
desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the
righteous, but sinners, to repentance.” Matthew 9:10-13
At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. And His
disciples were hungry and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. And
when the Pharisees saw it, they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples are
doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath!” But He said to them,
“Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who
were with him: how he entered the house of God and ate the showbread
which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him,
but only for the priests? Or have you not read in the law that on the
Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are
blameless? Yet I say to you that in this place there is One greater
than the temple. But if you had known what this means, I desire mercy
and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the
Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.” Matthew 12:1-8
And behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested Him, saying, “Teacher,
what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is
written in the law? What is your reading of it?” So, he answered and
said, “‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all
your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,’ and your
neighbor as yourself.’” And He said to him, “You have answered rightly;
do this and you will live.” But he, wanting to justify himself, said to
Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” Then Jesus answered and said: “A
certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among
thieves, who stripped him of his clothing, wounded him, and departed,
leaving him half dead. Now by chance a certain priest came down that
road. And when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. Likewise, a
Levite, when he arrived at the place, came and looked, and passed by on
the other side. But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he
was. And when he saw him, he had compassion. So, he went to him and
bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine; and he set him on his own
animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. On the next day,
when he departed, he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper,
and said to him, ‘Take care of him; and whatever more you spend, when I
come again, I will repay you.’ So, which of these three do you think
was neighbor to him who fell among the thieves?” And he said, “He who
showed mercy on him.” Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”
Luke 10:25-37
Note: Jesus Christ gives mercy.
When Jesus departed from there, two blind men followed Him, crying out
and saying, “Son of David, have mercy on us!” And when He had come into
the house, the blind men came to Him. And Jesus said to them, “Do you
believe that I am able to do this?” They said to Him, “Yes, Lord.” Then
He touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith let it be to
you.” And their eyes were opened. And Jesus sternly warned them,
saying, “See that no one knows it.” Matthew 9:27-30
Then Jesus went out from there and departed to the region of Tyre and
Sidon. And behold, a woman of Canaan came from that region and cried
out to Him, saying, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David! My
daughter is severely demon-possessed.” But He answered her not a word.
And His disciples came and urged Him, saying, “Send her away, for she
cries out after us.” But He answered and said, “I was not sent except
to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” Then she came and worshiped
Him, saying, “Lord, help me!” But He answered and said, “It is not good
to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs.” And she
said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs eat the crumbs which fall
from their masters’ table.” Then Jesus answered and said to her, “O
woman, great is your faith! Let it be to you as you desire.” And her
daughter was healed from that very hour. Matthew 15:21-28
Now they came to Jericho. As He went out of Jericho with His disciples
and a great multitude, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the
road begging. And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began
to cry out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” Then many
warned him to be quiet; but he cried out all the more, “Son of David,
have mercy on me!” So, Jesus stood still and commanded him to be
called. Then they called the blind man, saying to him, “Be of good
cheer. Rise, He is calling you.” And throwing aside his garment, he
rose and came to Jesus. So, Jesus answered and said to him, “What do
you want Me to do for you?” The blind man said to Him, “Rabboni, that I
may receive my sight.” Then Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your faith
has made you well.” And immediately he received his sight and followed
Jesus on the road. Mark 10:46-52
But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith,
praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking
for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. Jude 1:20-21
Note: You cannot demand the Mercy of God.
What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly
not! For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whomever I will have
mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.”
So, then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God
who shows mercy. For the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, “For this very
purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that
My name may be declared in all the earth.” Therefore, He has mercy on
whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens. You will say to me then,
“Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?” But
indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed
say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?” Does not
the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one
vessel for honor and another for dishonor? What if God, wanting to show
His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering
the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, and that He might make
known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had
prepared beforehand for glory, even us whom He called, not of the Jews
only, but also of the Gentiles? Romans 9:14-24
For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this
mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in
part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come
in. And so, all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer
will come out of Zion, and He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;
For this is My covenant with them, when I take away their sins.”
Concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sake but concerning
the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers. For the
gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. For as you were once
disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their
disobedience, even so these also have now been disobedient, that
through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy. For God has
committed them all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all.
Romans 11:25-32
Note: The Mercy of God comes from the Father and the Son.
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the commandment of God our Savior
and the Lord Jesus Christ, our hope, to Timothy, a true son in the
faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Jesus Christ our
Lord. 1 Timothy 1:1-2
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the
promise of life which is in Christ Jesus, to Timothy, a beloved son:
Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
2 Timothy 1:1-2
Paul, a bondservant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to
the faith of God’s elect and the acknowledgment of the truth which
accords with godliness, in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot
lie, promised before time began, but has in due time manifested His
word through preaching, which was committed to me according to the
commandment of God our Savior; To Titus, a true son in our common
faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ our Savior. Titus 1:1-4
The Elder, to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth,
and not only I, but also all those who have known the truth, because of
the truth which abides in us and will be with us forever: Grace, mercy,
and peace will be with you from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus
Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. 2 John 1:1-3