Quotes about Mercy

And as I listened, He said to the others, “Follow him through the city and start killing; do not show pity or spare anyone!

But I will spare a few of them from sword and famine and plague, so that in the nations to which they go, they can recount all their abominations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”

Then I passed by and saw you wallowing in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, ‘Live!’ There I said to you, ‘Live!’

None of the transgressions he has committed will be held against him. Because of the righteousness he has practiced, he will live.

Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Lord GOD. Wouldn’t I prefer that he turn from his ways and live?

Because he considered and turned from all the transgressions he had committed, he will surely live; he will not die.

For I take no pleasure in anyone’s death, declares the Lord GOD. So repent and live!

Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them or bring them to an end in the wilderness.

Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’

None of the sins he has committed will be held against him. He has done what is just and right; he will surely live.

But if a wicked man turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he will live because of this.

You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bound up the injured, brought back the strays, or searched for the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.