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 ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
• Matt 6:14–15For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
• 2 Sam 22:26With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.
• Matt 18:33–35Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?
• Ps 18:25With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;
• Jas 2:13For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
• Jas 3:17But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
• Col 3:12Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
• Mic 6:8He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
• Luke 6:35But 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.
• Prov 19:17He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
• Heb 6:10For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
• Ps 41:1–4Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
• Dan 4:27Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.
• Prov 11:17The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.
• Heb 4:16Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
• Prov 14:21He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.
• Mark 11:25And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
• 1 Pet 2:10Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
• Ps 37:26He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.
• Ps 112:4Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
• Hos 2:1Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
• Isa 58:6–12Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
• Ps 112:9He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour.
• 1 Tim 1:13Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
• 2 Tim 1:16–18The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:
• Job 31:16–22If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
• 1 Tim 1:16Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
• 1 Cor 7:25Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.
• Hos 2:23And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.
• Hos 1:6And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God said unto him, Call her name Loruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.
• Isa 57:1The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
• Rom 11:30For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
• 2 Cor 4:1Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;

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