Quotes about Mercy
For the LORD will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one remains, slave or free.
— Deuteronomy 32:36
that you will spare the lives of my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and that you will deliver us from death.”
— Joshua 2:13
And Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her father’s household and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent to spy out Jericho. So she has lived among the Israelites to this day.
— Joshua 6:25
So Joshua did this and delivered them from the hands of the Israelites, and they did not kill the Gibeonites.
— Joshua 9:26
For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts to engage Israel in battle, so that they would be set apart for destruction and would receive no mercy, being annihilated as the LORD had commanded Moses.
— Joshua 11:20
When someone flees to one of these cities, stands at the entrance of the city gate, and states his case before its elders, they are to bring him into the city and give him a place to live among them.
— Joshua 20:4
Now if the avenger of blood pursues him, they must not surrender the manslayer into his hand, because that man killed his neighbor accidentally without prior malice.
— Joshua 20:5
“May you be blessed by the LORD,” replied Saul, “for you have had compassion on me.
— 1 Samuel 23:21
So David’s men said to him, “This is the day about which the LORD said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, that you may do with him as you wish.’” Then David crept up secretly and cut off a corner of Saul’s robe.
— 1 Samuel 24:4
Afterward, David’s conscience was stricken because he had cut off the corner of Saul’s robe.
— 1 Samuel 24:5
With these words David restrained his men, and he did not let them rise up against Saul. Then Saul left the cave and went on his way.
— 1 Samuel 24:7
Behold, this day you have seen with your own eyes that the LORD delivered you into my hand in the cave. I was told to kill you, but I spared you and said, ‘I will not lift my hand against my lord, since he is the LORD’s anointed.’
— 1 Samuel 24:10