Continuing with lessons learned from the Bible. MERCY:
Psalms 145:8) The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.
9 .) The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
10 .) All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall bless thee.
Psalms 86:3) Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.
4 .) Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
5 .) For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
6 .) Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications.
7 .) In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.
2nd Samuel 24:14) And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
Exodus 34:5) And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
6 .) And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
7 .) Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Proverbs 3:3) Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
4 .) So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
5 .) Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
6 .) In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
7 .) Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
Proverbs 11:17) The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.
Hosea 6:4) O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.
5 .) Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.
6 .) For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Matthew 5:7) Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Matthew 5:44) But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
45 .) That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Luke 6:35) But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
36 .) Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
37 .) Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:
38 .) Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
Ephesians 2:4) But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
5 .) Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;
Titus 3:4) But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
5 .) Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
6 .) Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
7 .) That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
James 2:12) So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
13 .) For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
Jude 1:20) But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
21 .) Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
22 .) And of some have compassion, making a difference:
23 .) And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
God is Great! God is surely merciful!
