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 ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
• Prov 21:13Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
• Luke 6:37Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:
• Eph 2:4–7But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
• Matt 18:28–35But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest.
• Ps 18:25With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;
• Matt 7:1–2Judge not, that ye be not judged.
• Matt 25:41–46Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
• Eph 1:6–7To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
• 1 Jn 4:18–19There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
• Ps 85:10Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
• Mic 7:18Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
• 1 Jn 4:8–16He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
• Job 22:6–10For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
• Judg 1:7And Adonibezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.
• Ezek 33:11Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
• Jer 9:24But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.
• Gen 42:21And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
• Jas 5:4Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
• Luke 16:25But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
• Isa 27:11When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.

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