Matthew 5:7

The merciful are blessed, for they will receive mercy. It teaches that those who show mercy reflect, and will experience, God's mercy.

Cross-references · 34

• Eph 4:32And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
• Matt 6:14–15“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
• 2 Sam 22:26With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect.
• Matt 18:33–35Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?’
• Ps 18:25With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.
• Jas 2:13For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
• Jas 3:17But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
• Col 3:12Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
• Mic 6:8He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
• Luke 6:35But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
• Prov 19:17He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.
• Heb 6:10For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
• Ps 41:1–4For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.
• Dan 4:27Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.
• Prov 11:17The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.
• Heb 4:16Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.
• Prov 14:21He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who has pity on the poor.
• Mark 11:25Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.
• 1 Pet 2:10who in time past were no people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
• Ps 37:26All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His offspring is blessed.
• Ps 112:4Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.
• Hos 2:1“Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’ and to your sisters, ‘My loved one!’
• Isa 58:6–12“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
• Ps 112:9He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.
• 1 Tim 1:13although I was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
• 2 Tim 1:16–18May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,
• Job 31:16–22“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
• 1 Tim 1:16However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience, for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.
• 1 Cor 7:25Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.
• Hos 2:23I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘My God!’”
• Hos 1:6She conceived again, and bore a daughter. Then he said to him, “Call her name Lo-Ruhamah; for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, that I should in any way pardon them.
• Isa 57:1The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.
• Rom 11:30For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,
• 2 Cor 4:1Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.

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