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100 Bible Verses about Gods Mercy

Hebrews 4:16 ESV / 822 helpful votes

Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Ephesians 2:4-5 ESV / 655 helpful votes

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

James 2:13 ESV / 580 helpful votes

For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Luke 6:36 ESV / 551 helpful votes

Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

Micah 6:8 ESV / 506 helpful votes

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Psalm 86:5 ESV / 502 helpful votes

For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.

Lamentations 3:22-23 ESV / 492 helpful votes

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

Matthew 5:7 ESV / 459 helpful votes

“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.

1 Peter 1:3 ESV / 444 helpful votes

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Titus 3:5 ESV / 428 helpful votes

He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

Matthew 9:13 ESV / 410 helpful votes

Go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Micah 7:18 ESV / 402 helpful votes

Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 399 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Deuteronomy 4:31 ESV / 354 helpful votes

For the Lord your God is a merciful God. He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore to them.

John 3:16 ESV / 348 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Psalm 23:6 ESV / 336 helpful votes

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

Psalm 145:9 ESV / 317 helpful votes

The Lord is good to all, and his mercy is over all that he has made.

Proverbs 28:13 ESV / 296 helpful votes

Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 287 helpful votes

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

Romans 12:1 ESV / 286 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Psalm 25:6-7 ESV / 286 helpful votes

Remember your mercy, O Lord, and your steadfast love, for they have been from of old. Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me, for the sake of your goodness, O Lord!

Ephesians 2:4 ESV / 269 helpful votes

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,

Jeremiah 3:12 ESV / 257 helpful votes

Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, “‘Return, faithless Israel, declares the Lord. I will not look on you in anger, for I am merciful, declares the Lord; I will not be angry forever.

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 243 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Joel 2:12-14 ESV / 243 helpful votes

“Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; and rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster. Who knows whether he will not turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, a grain offering and a drink offering for the Lord your God?

2 Chronicles 30:9 ESV / 239 helpful votes

For if you return to the Lord, your brothers and your children will find compassion with their captors and return to this land. For the Lord your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.”

Psalm 103:8 ESV / 238 helpful votes

The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

Isaiah 30:18 ESV / 232 helpful votes

Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.

Luke 1:50 ESV / 223 helpful votes

And his mercy is for those who fear him from generation to generation.

Lamentations 3:22 ESV / 223 helpful votes

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end;

Exodus 34:6-7 ESV / 217 helpful votes

The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.”

Romans 9:15 ESV / 216 helpful votes

For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

Psalm 51:1 ESV / 213 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.

2 Samuel 22:26 ESV / 212 helpful votes

“With the merciful you show yourself merciful; with the blameless man you show yourself blameless;

Luke 1:78 ESV / 210 helpful votes

Because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the sunrise shall visit us from on high

Isaiah 55:7 ESV / 207 helpful votes

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

2 Samuel 24:14 ESV / 206 helpful votes

Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Let us fall into the hand of the Lord, for his mercy is great; but let me not fall into the hand of man.”

Malachi 3:17 ESV / 199 helpful votes

“They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.

Matthew 18:21-22 ESV / 197 helpful votes

Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times.

Colossians 3:12 ESV / 196 helpful votes

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,

Matthew 6:14 ESV / 193 helpful votes

For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,

Matthew 23:23 ESV / 191 helpful votes

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

Psalm 136:1-26 ESV / 186 helpful votes

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever. Give thanks to the God of gods, for his steadfast love endures forever. Give thanks to the Lord of lords, for his steadfast love endures forever; to him who alone does great wonders, for his steadfast love endures forever; to him who by understanding made the heavens, for his steadfast love endures forever; ...

Psalm 86:15 ESV / 184 helpful votes

But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

Deuteronomy 7:9 ESV / 183 helpful votes

Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

Daniel 9:9 ESV / 182 helpful votes

To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him

1 Timothy 1:16 ESV / 180 helpful votes

But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.

Psalm 107:1 ESV / 180 helpful votes

Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!

Psalm 106:1 ESV / 174 helpful votes

Praise the Lord! Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!

1 Chronicles 16:34 ESV / 173 helpful votes

Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!

Exodus 34:6 ESV / 172 helpful votes

The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,

Jonah 4:2 ESV / 171 helpful votes

And he prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster.

Colossians 3:13 ESV / 170 helpful votes

Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

Psalm 103:11 ESV / 167 helpful votes

For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;

Psalm 25:6 ESV / 166 helpful votes

Remember your mercy, O Lord, and your steadfast love, for they have been from of old.

Romans 6:14 ESV / 165 helpful votes

For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

Psalm 103:17 ESV / 162 helpful votes

But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children,

Joel 2:13 ESV / 161 helpful votes

And rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.

Numbers 14:18 ESV / 159 helpful votes

‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.’

Psalm 40:11 ESV / 155 helpful votes

As for you, O Lord, you will not restrain your mercy from me; your steadfast love and your faithfulness will ever preserve me!

Romans 9:15-16 ESV / 153 helpful votes

For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 149 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Psalm 130:7 ESV / 148 helpful votes

O Israel, hope in the Lord! For with the Lord there is steadfast love, and with him is plentiful redemption.

Hosea 6:6 ESV / 146 helpful votes

For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Romans 9:18 ESV / 142 helpful votes

So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.

Isaiah 49:13 ESV / 138 helpful votes

Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; break forth, O mountains, into singing! For the Lord has comforted his people and will have compassion on his afflicted.

James 2:12-13 ESV / 136 helpful votes

So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty. For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Jude 1:23-25 ESV / 135 helpful votes

Save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh. Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.

Exodus 33:19 ESV / 132 helpful votes

And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The Lord.’ And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.

Proverbs 14:21 ESV / 130 helpful votes

Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.

Psalm 115:1 ESV / 128 helpful votes

Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!

Psalm 51:1-2 ESV / 126 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!

Psalm 103:4 ESV / 124 helpful votes

Who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,

Romans 8:28 ESV / 123 helpful votes

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Psalm 118:1-4 ESV / 121 helpful votes

Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever! Let Israel say, “His steadfast love endures forever.” Let the house of Aaron say, “His steadfast love endures forever.” Let those who fear the Lord say, “His steadfast love endures forever.”

Psalm 118:29 ESV / 114 helpful votes

Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!

Hosea 14:3 ESV / 113 helpful votes

Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses; and we will say no more, ‘Our God,’ to the work of our hands. In you the orphan finds mercy.”

Galatians 6:16 ESV / 112 helpful votes

And as for all who walk by this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.

Psalm 52:8 ESV / 111 helpful votes

But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever.

Romans 6:15 ESV / 110 helpful votes

What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!

Romans 5:15 ESV / 110 helpful votes

But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 108 helpful votes

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Hosea 2:23 ESV / 108 helpful votes

And I will sow her for myself in the land. And I will have mercy on No Mercy, and I will say to Not My People, ‘You are my people’; and he shall say, ‘You are my God.’”

Psalm 89:28 ESV / 108 helpful votes

My steadfast love I will keep for him forever, and my covenant will stand firm for him.

Psalm 112:5 ESV / 106 helpful votes

It is well with the man who deals generously and lends; who conducts his affairs with justice.

Psalm 90:17 ESV / 106 helpful votes

Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands!

2 Corinthians 12:9 ESV / 105 helpful votes

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Isaiah 54:8 ESV / 105 helpful votes

In overflowing anger for a moment I hid my face from you, but with everlasting love I will have compassion on you,” says the Lord, your Redeemer.

Psalm 6:4 ESV / 105 helpful votes

Turn, O Lord, deliver my life; save me for the sake of your steadfast love.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 103 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Lamentations 3:32 ESV / 102 helpful votes

But, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love;

Psalm 147:11 ESV / 101 helpful votes

But the Lord takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his steadfast love.

Psalm 31:7 ESV / 101 helpful votes

I will rejoice and be glad in your steadfast love, because you have seen my affliction; you have known the distress of my soul,

1 Kings 8:23 ESV / 97 helpful votes

And said, “O Lord, God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to your servants who walk before you with all their heart;

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 96 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Isaiah 54:7 ESV / 95 helpful votes

For a brief moment I deserted you, but with great compassion I will gather you.

Nehemiah 9:31 ESV / 94 helpful votes

Nevertheless, in your great mercies you did not make an end of them or forsake them, for you are a gracious and merciful God.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 93 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Psalm 36:5 ESV / 93 helpful votes

Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds.

Psalm 130:1-2 ESV / 92 helpful votes

A Song of Ascents. Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord! O Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas for mercy!

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