Here is our list of Bible verses on mercy. It doesn’t include every verse in the Bible on mercy, but the clearest and most popular were handpicked. These verses can help us all learn what Scripture says about being merciful so that we can treat others how God wants us to. All verses are ASV since it is in the public domain and legal to copy.

List of Bible Verses on Mercy

James 2:12-13

So speak ye, and so do, as men that are to be judged by a law of liberty. For judgment is without mercy to him that hath showed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgment.

Matthew 5:7

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

Luke 6:36

Be ye merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

1 Peter 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy begat us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead

Hebrews 4:16

Let us therefore draw near with boldness unto the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace to help us in time of need.

Romans 12:8

Or he that exhorteth, to his exhorting: he that giveth, let him do it with liberality; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that showeth mercy, with cheerfulness.

Micah 6:8

He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Proverbs 11:17

The merciful man doeth good to his own soul; But he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.

Colossians 3:12-13

Put on therefore, as God’s elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering; forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye

Proverbs 21:21

He that followeth after righteousness and kindness Findeth life, righteousness, and honor.

Isaiah 30:18

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

Isaiah 49:10

They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them will lead them, even by springs of water will he guide them.

Isaiah 54:10

For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my lovingkindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed, saith Jehovah that hath mercy on thee.

Jeremiah 42:12

And I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own land.

Matthew 9:13

But go ye and learn what this meaneth, I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.

Matthew 9:27

And as Jesus passed by from thence, two blind men followed him, crying out, and saying, Have mercy on us, thou son of David.

Matthew 18:33

Shouldest not thou also have had mercy on thy fellow-servant, even as I had mercy on thee?

Mark 5:19

And he suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go to thy house unto thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and how he had mercy on thee.

Luke 1:50

And his mercy is unto generations and generations On them that fear him.

Romans 9:15-18

For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that hath mercy. For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, For this very purpose did I raise thee up, that I might show in thee my power, and that my name might be published abroad in all the earth. So then he hath mercy on whom he will, and whom he will be hardeneth.

Ephesians 2:4

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us

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