James 2:13

Judgment will be merciless to those who showed no mercy, but mercy triumphs over judgment. How we treat others reflects whether God's mercy has truly gripped us.

Cross-references · 22

• Matt 5:7Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
• Matt 6:15But if you don’t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
• Prov 21:13Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.
• Luke 6:37Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.
• Eph 2:4–7But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
• Matt 18:28–35“But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, who owed him one hundred denarii, and he grabbed him, and took him by the throat, saying, ‘Pay me what you owe!’
• Ps 18:25With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.
• Matt 7:1–2“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.
• Matt 25:41–46Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
• Eph 1:6–7to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,
• 1 Jn 4:18–19There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.
• Ps 85:10Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
• Mic 7:18Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
• 1 Jn 4:8–16He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
• Job 22:6–10For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
• Judg 1:7Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their big toes cut off, scavenged under my table. As I have done, so God has done to me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
• Ezek 33:11Tell them, As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn, turn from your evil ways; for why will you die, house of Israel?
• Jer 9:24But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight,” says Yahweh.
• Gen 42:21They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.”
• Jas 5:4Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
• Luke 16:25“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.
• Isa 27:11When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

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